August 4, 2015, Filed Under: Art, Meet the Staff, Theatre + Performing ArtsMeet the staff: Chelsea Weathers, research associate, visual materials collections Meet the Staff is a Q&A series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center. Chelsea Weathers received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and then both her Masters of Arts and
July 30, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Research + TeachingThrowback Thursday—Contents of a country: Leicester Hemingway’s Republic of New Atlantis This month 51 years ago, the younger brother of Ernest Hemingway staked a claim to a small piece of land off the Jamaican coast, creating a new currency, flag and government for the fledgling nation of New Atlantis, many artifacts of which are now held at the Ransom Center. This post originally appeared in… read more
July 28, 2015, Filed Under: Photography, Research + TeachingVideo: Fellow discusses further research in photographic albums Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is a visual anthropologist based at the University of Cambridge as an affiliated lecturer and research associate at the Centre of South Asian Studies and a research fellow at Clare Hall College. She is currently working on her research project, “Visual priming and Ceylonese identities since the late… read more
