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About Bridget Gayle Ground

Ground coordinated the Ransom Center’s research fellowship program and assisted with the planning and implementation of other academic programs, including the biennial Flair Symposium. She was also a graduate student in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin, focusing on architectural history and its representation in museums and archives.

Visit the Ransom Center car-free

June 14, 2018 - Bridget Ground

This Thursday, June 21, marks the American Public Transportation Association (APTA)’s 13th annual National Dump the Pump Day, which encourages people to opt for public transportation rather than a personal car. [Read more…] about Visit the Ransom Center car-free

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: CapMetro, Dump the Pump Day, sustainability

School of Architecture students collaborate with Ransom Center to learn exhibition design

February 6, 2018 - Bridget Ground

Just steps away from the Ransom Center is The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, where hundreds of students work diligently on a wide range of design assignments, from the scale of furniture and interiors to that of cities and regions. These assignments are often based on real-life scenarios, providing practical experience to prepare students for their professional careers. [Read more…] about School of Architecture students collaborate with Ransom Center to learn exhibition design

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: arts and crafts movement, exhibition design, instruction, interior design, School of Architecture

Visit the Ransom Center without letting traffic stress you out!

June 13, 2017 - Bridget Ground

Visit the Ransom Center car-free

This Thursday, June 15, marks the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) twelfth annual National Dump the Pump Day, which encourages people to opt for public transportation rather than a personal car. [Read more…] about Visit the Ransom Center without letting traffic stress you out!

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: American Public Transportation Association, bus, CapMetro, Dump the Pump Day, getting to the Ransom Center, location, public transit, public transport, sustainability, transporation

Researcher publications examine black history and culture

February 23, 2017 - Bridget Ground

Each year dozens of researchers publish books based on their work at the Ransom Center. For African American History Month we compiled the following selection of recent publications informed by the Center’s collections. [Read more…] about Researcher publications examine black history and culture

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: African American History Month, Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus, Black History Month, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, Dennis Childs, Erich Nunn, Fellowships, Krin Gabbard, Megan Walsh, Miriam J. Petty, researcher publications, Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary, Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination, Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood, Talitha L. LeFlouria, The Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America

Q&A with John Pipkin: Stellar finds from facts and family fragments of sibling astronomers

September 28, 2016 - Bridget Ground

The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter (Bloomsbury), a new novel by former Ransom Center fellow John Pipkin, offers readers a view into a world of scientific inquiry and political upheaval in late-eighteenth-century Ireland. [Read more…] about Q&A with John Pipkin: Stellar finds from facts and family fragments of sibling astronomers

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: astronomy, Herschel family papers, literature

Ransom Center to host more than 80 scholars in fellowship program’s 25th year

May 9, 2014 - Bridget Ground

Cover of Eric Gill's Twenty-five Nudes (1938; reprint, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1951); James Salter's notes on possible titles for his novel Light Years, ca. 1974–5; cover of Paul Hayden Duensing's 25: a quarter-century of triumphs and disasters in the microcosm of the Private Press & Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing (Kalamazoo, Mich.: The Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1976); signaled message from the Royal Air Force to John Pudney requesting a poem for the organization's 25th anniversary, March 24, 1943; photograph of 25th Street Theater, Waco, ca. 1962.

The Ransom Center will support more than 80 research fellows for 2014–2015, the 25th anniversary of the fellowship program. Since the program’s inception, the Center has awarded fellowships to more than 900 scholars from around the world.

The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial on-site use of the Center’s collections of manuscripts, rare books, film, photography, art, and performing arts materials.

The 2014–2015 fellowship recipients, more than half of whom will be coming from abroad, will use Ransom Center materials to support projects with such titles as “J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Literary,” “Imagined Heartlands: Post-Postmodern Literature and the American Midwest,” “The Films of Powell and Pressburger,” “Norman Hall: Photo-Editing and International Connections in Mid-Twentieth Century Photography,” and “Dawn of a New Day: New York City Between the Fairs.”

The fellowships range from one to three months in duration and provide $3,000 of support per month. Travel stipends and dissertation fellowships are also awarded.

The stipends are funded by individual donors and organizations, including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and The University of Texas at Austin’s Office of Graduate Studies, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and program in British Studies.

The Ransom Center will host eight additional scholars in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) International Placement Scheme (IPS). This program, funded and administered by the U.K.-based AHRC, offers early-career researchers and AHRC-funded doctoral students from U.K. universities the opportunity to enhance their research with a fellowship at one of its six participating host institutions.

Image: Cover of Eric Gill’s Twenty-five Nudes (1938; reprint, London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1951); James Salter’s notes on possible titles for his novel Light Years, ca. 1974–5; cover of Paul Hayden Duensing’s 25: a quarter-century of triumphs and disasters in the microcosm of the Private Press & Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing (Kalamazoo, Mich.: The Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1976); signaled message from the Royal Air Force to John Pudney requesting a poem for the organization’s 25th anniversary, March 24, 1943; photograph of 25th Street Theater, Waco, ca. 1962.

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Studies, Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation, Emeric Pressburger, Fellowships, J. M. Coetzee, Michael Powell, Norman Hall, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Texas at Austin’s Office of Graduate Studies

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