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Winners Announced for 2025 Schuchard Prize

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has awarded the fourth-annual Ronald Schuchard Undergraduate Archival Research Prize to three outstanding researchers. The competition awards cash prizes to the top undergraduate research papers or digital projects created using primary source material from the Center’s archival collections. Jessica… read more 

, Filed Under: Research + Teaching

Fellowships Awarded to 46 scholars

The Ransom Center has awarded 46 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation, and independent researchers. The selected projects span a wide breadth of collection materials and include topics such as predigital communication systems in the work of Caroline Herschel, the early Chinese translation and reception of Lewis Carroll’s… read more 

, Filed Under: Meet the Staff, Research + Teaching

Benjamin Gross Appointed Associate Director of Research Services at the Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has appointed Benjamin Gross as the John Merritt Associate Director for Research Services, a senior leadership position responsible for guiding the Center’s research operations and advancing its mission to foster inquiry, discovery, and learning. Gross comes to the Ransom… read more 

, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events

Celebrating Gabriel García Márquez’s Global Journey: Q&A with the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia

by RICARDO CASTRO AGUDELO The publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967 and its global success transformed Gabriel García Márquez’s life, propelling him from being a relatively unknown writer in Mexico City to one of the most celebrated literary figures of the twentieth century. He received the Nobel… read more 

, Filed Under: Film, Theatre + Performing Arts

Lorne Michaels Lands at the Ransom Center

Creator of Saturday Night Live Donates Historic Archive by CINDY MCCREERY When the director of the Harry Ransom Center, Stephen Enniss, shared the news with me that Saturday Night Live Executive Producer and renowned TV comedy writer/producer Lorne Michaels would be donating his collection to the Center, I literally gasped.… read more