May 24, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingHyde Park host provided home away from home for scholars Cultural Compass: Can you tell us about some of your most memorable guests? Martha Campbell: Oh, heavens! Martha Campbell, 73, is not your typical B&B owner. During the time she hosted Ransom Center scholars at her home between 1995 and 2010, Campbell helped one renter woo her future husband, competed… read more
May 15, 2012, Filed Under: Research + TeachingMore than 50 fellowships provide opportunity to research at Ransom Center The Ransom Center has awarded more than 50 research fellowships for 2012–2013. The fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial on-site use of the Center’s collections of manuscripts, rare books, photographs, art, film and performing arts materials. Christopher Grobe, an Assistant Professor in the Department of English… read more
May 10, 2012, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Scholar studies the Sandinista revolution and the Contra War through the lenses of photojournalists Ileana Selejan, Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, recently spent time in the Magnum Photos collection with a dissertation fellowship from the Ransom Center. Selejan’s work focuses on aesthetics in war photography and protest art at the turn of the 1980s, specifically on the Sandinista… read more
