June 17, 2015, Filed Under: Conservation, Research + TeachingPreserving and Enhancing Access to Physicist Owen W. Richardson’s Papers With the generous support of a grant from the History Programs, American Institute of Physics, the Ransom Center has created a new online finding aid for the papers of English physicist Owen W. Richardson (1879–1959). The papers were originally processed during the 1960s and described on more than 8,000 catalog… read more
February 9, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Finding humanity in the Isaac Bashevis Singer correspondence Alexandra Tali Herzog, PhD candidate in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, visited the Harry Ransom Center in June 2011 on a dissertation fellowship to investigate the Isaac Bashevis Singer collection. In her dissertation, she examines the interplay between demonology, libertinism, and religion in Singer’s work. Drawing… read more
