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The Ransom Center and NAGPRA: A team effort in research

February 18, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

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.  [Read more…] about The Ransom Center and NAGPRA: A team effort in research

Filed Under: archive, Art, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: collections, RansomResearch

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.

Wonder, depth, understanding: Scholarship in process

January 15, 2021 - Harry Ransom Center

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. 
[Read more…] about Wonder, depth, understanding: Scholarship in process

Filed Under: archive, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: fellows, RansomResearch

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.

Taking time to teach hidden histories in the archives

October 21, 2020 - Lauren Jae Gutterman

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.  [Read more…] about Taking time to teach hidden histories in the archives

Filed Under: archive, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: RansomResearch, Research, What is Research?

Learning how to read again

October 14, 2020 - Aaron T. Pratt

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. 

[Read more…] about Learning how to read again

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: RansomResearch, Research, What is Research?

LISTEN SLOW: Researching Anne Sexton putting poetry her way

October 8, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

by TANYA E. CLEMENT

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.  [Read more…] about LISTEN SLOW: Researching Anne Sexton putting poetry her way

Filed Under: Featured1, literature, Research + Teaching Tagged With: #AnneSexton, fellows, RansomResearch, What is Research?

ABOUT TANYA E. CLEMENT

Tanya E. Clement is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of research are textual studies, sound studies, and infrastructure studies as these concerns impact academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in the digital humanities (DH). She has published widely in digital humanities and literary studies.

What is Research? An exercise in Slow Research

September 3, 2020 - Gretchen Henderson

On September 11, 2001, the BBC World Service reported the start of a performance titled Organ2/As SLow aS Possible (ASLSP). Originally composed by John Cage in 1987, the posthumous recital in Germany was planned to contribute to “a revolution in slowness”—to be performed chord by chord—over 639 years. [Read more…] about What is Research? An exercise in Slow Research

Filed Under: archive, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: RansomResearch, Research, What is Research?

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