May 15, 2018, Filed Under: Meet the StaffQ&A with Erin Willard, undergraduate intern in Public Affairs Erin Willard is an undergraduate intern in the Department of Public Affairs.
May 9, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingCold War culture Erik Mortenson discusses his book Ambiguous Borderlands and the pervasiveness of shadow imagery in Cold War materials. Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) investigates the role shadows play in Cold War literary and popular texts. Informed by research at the Ransom Center,… read more
January 23, 2018, Filed Under: Conservation, PhotographyPreserving Arnold Newman’s photography slides The Ransom Center’s Arnold Newman papers and photography collection, acquired in 2006, includes more than 25,000 prints, original sitting books, early sketchbooks, photographic albums, and video recordings of interviews and lectures. Newman, who lived from 1918 to 2006, was a prolific artist known for his “environmental portraiture,” a style which… read more
