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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.

January 15, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

Wonder, 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 

ABOUT CELSO VIEIRA
Celso Vieira is a researcher of Ancient Philosophy working mainly with Platonic abstract objects and the process philosophy of Heraclitus. He comes from Brazil and is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany. In between these two phases, he was a research fellow at the Harry Ransom Center.

October 21, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

Taking 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 

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