February 18, 2021, Filed Under: Art, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe 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
January 15, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingWonder, depth, understanding: Scholarship in process by CELSO VIEIRA 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. Wonder: that is the starting point of philosophy, according to Plato. Myths capture our attention by telling wonderful stories. Philosophers, however, look for hidden wonders disguised… read more
October 21, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingTaking time to teach hidden histories in the archives This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? The students stand, pencil and paper in hand, before the display window in the Harry Ransom Center’s seminar room. Behind the glass are an array of objects from the Center’s archives: Arthur Miller’s handwritten notes on a draft… read more