Margaret Denny received a Marlene Nathan Meyerson Photography Fellowship to conduct research in the Ransom Center’s Gernsheim collection. Below she shares some of her findings at the Ransom Center. During the past decade, I have conducted primary research on Victorian women in photography, an investigation that culminated in my dissertation From… read more
Research
Fellow discusses Ross Russell collection and Raymond Chandler
Judith Freeman, a fellow from the University of Southern California, discusses her research in the Ross Russell archive. Freeman’s focus lies primarily with noir, Raymond Chandler, and Los Angeles, but her time in the collections expanded her interest in jazz. Freeman’s project, “Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles,” was funded by the… read more
Video highlights fellow’s work in Transcription Centre archive
Samantha Pinto came to the Ransom Center as a fellow from Georgetown University to work on her project “Africa, (Re)Circulated: Cosmopolitan Performances of Mid-Century Modernity.” Pinto’s research, which focuses on the United States’s perception of Africa, involved documents and multimedia components from the Transcription Centre archive. The materials from the… read more