December 1, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe passion to push the paradigm by DANIEL ARBINO This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? As a librarian at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin, I have been fortunate to carry values from my personal research journey and apply them to collection development… read more
February 13, 2018, Filed Under: Research + TeachingTransnational sisterhood and solidarity in the Julia Alvarez archive Image: Notecard card from Edgwidge Danticat to JuliaAlvarez; the image is titled Colored Girl. In 1999, five years after Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies was published, the United Nations General Assembly cited the novel as an important cultural text that helped to pass the resolution to designate… read more
January 17, 2017, Filed Under: Meet the Staff, Research + TeachingMeet the Staff: Andi Gustavson facilitates teaching with the 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. An alumnus of The University of Texas’s American Studies doctoral program, Andi Gustavson first came to the Harry Ransom Center as a graduate intern.
