Recent Ransom Center Undergraduate Intern Projects

Undergraduate intern Kelsey McKinney researched signatures on the Ransom Center's authors' door, ultimately creating a system to archive the more than 200 signatures. Photo by Pete Smith.

Exhibitions

Selected materials and co-wrote labels for Inside El Salvador (2008), The Mystique of the Archive (2008), Making Movies (2010), Viva Mexico's Independence (2010), and Becoming Tennessee Williams (2011)
Developed content for exhibition keepsakes, press pages, and promotional videos
Developed educational materials for self-guided and docent-led gallery tours

Performing Arts

Created a preliminary description for the Edith Lutyens Bel Geddes papers
Prioritized Norman Bel Geddes sound recordings for digitization
Edited metadata for digitized costume designs in the B. J. Simmons records

Archives and Visual Materials Processing

Cataloged at least 17 manuscript collections
Conducted preliminary organizational work for several larger collections
Worked (or are currently working) with archivists on several large cataloging projects related to the B. J. Simmons, David Mamet, Morris Ernst, and Eric Walter White papers

Development

Researched grant prospects including foundations, corporations, and governmental agencies
Assisted with grant applications
Arranged and participated in tours for major donor prospects and other guests
Wrote articles for the newsletter and other development publication

Art

Provided research for exhibition proposals related to Picasso's Suite Vollard and Robert Motherwell's a la Pintura exhibition
Assisted art staff in inventorying, packing, and moving collection material from the Flawn Academic Center to the Harry Ransom Center
Researched Mexican caricaturist Jose Guadalupe Posada and translated the Spanish text found throughout this artist's historical broadsides
Researched artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti and artists in the collection selected for the Ransom Center's exhibition A Cabinet of Drawings; created a bibliography on those artists