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

The Harry Ransom Center is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2026–2027 research fellowships. This year’s cohort consists of 47 postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and independent researchers who will travel to Austin from seven countries and 15 US states to immerse themselves in the Center’s collections. Their research interests… read more 

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 

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