May 9, 2023, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellowships Awarded to 52 Scholars The Ransom Center has awarded 52 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying a wide array of topics, from Tennessee Williams’ visual self portraits to 1980s Hollywood Gothic, Deborah Hay and the choreographer as archivist, literary estates and copyright, the Nigerian Civil War and Nigerian… read more
March 10, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsThe Knickerbocker Theatre Collapse by HANNAH NEUHAUSER In the 1980s, the Harry Ransom Center received a scrapbook from John and Vera Hills along with an extraordinary unpublished account of their survival of the Knickerbocker Theatre roof collapse in Washington, D.C. on January 28, 1922. The scrapbook and testimony are available for research in the… read more
November 16, 2022, Filed Under: Research + TeachingA Greek fragment is the first-known New Testament papyrus written on the front side of a scroll by GEOFFREY S. SMITH A Fragment Makes History A few months ago, I received a much-anticipated email that read, “The courier is scheduled to deliver the Willoughby Papyrus to the Ransom Center tomorrow.” The next morning, I anxiously watched as members of the Center’s conservation staff carefully removed from the… read more
