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February 18, 2021, Filed Under: Art, Featured1, Research + Teaching

The Ransom Center and NAGPRA: A team effort in research

by ESTER HARRISON This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. In 2018, a committee of staff members at the Harry Ransom Center began the process of updating the Center’s deaccession policy and procedures: a standard document… read more

ABOUT ESTER HARRISON

Ester Harrison is the Registrar for Art Loans and Exhibitions at the Harry Ransom Center, where she has served on several committees, including those tasked with renovation planning, deaccessioning, NAGPRA compliance, and updating procedures into modern standards and practices of collections and exhibits stewardship. She has a master’s degree in Anthropology and Museum studies from UW-Milwaukee, where she assisted with the NAGPRA initiative at the Milwaukee Public Museum, and continues to serve as an AAM-Museum Assessment Program Peer Reviewer where she has consults to smaller art museums in their efforts to attain national accreditation. She has worked as registrar for more than 700 exhibitions.

April 4, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts

How a sun hat, an address book, and a character outline enhance Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“It has been said that loneliness is the great American malady. What is the nature of this loneliness? It would seem essentially to be a quest for identity.”—Carson McCullers’s essay “The Nature of Loneliness”

March 27, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching

What’s in the PEN archives?

The PEN records occupy 180 linear feet, span 1912 to 2008, and document the history and activities of the English PEN and PEN International, as well as the formation (and sometimes dissolution) of other PEN centers around the globe.

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