May 6, 2025, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellowships 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
December 10, 2024, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingMilton in Phoenix by AARON T. PRATT Any Shakespeare collector would want a copy of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, which is arguably the most comprehensive history of England, Ireland, and Scotland written during the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. Carl H. Pforzheimer bought a copy of the first edition (1577) for his library of early… read more
May 13, 2024, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellowships Awarded to 54 Scholars The Ransom Center has awarded 54 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying a wide array of topics, from a women’s history of modernism told through clothing to the imprisoned writer in the international imagination and more. Since 1990, the Ransom Center Fellowship Program has… read more
