Fellowships
The Ransom Center annually awards 50 fellowships to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. Applicants must demonstrate the necessity of substantial on-site use of the Center's collections.
The fellowships range from one to three months, with stipends of $3,000 per month. Also available are $1,200 to $1,700 travel stipends and dissertation fellowships with a $1,500 stipend. The stipends are funded by individual donors and organizations, including the Ransom Center, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Hobby Family Foundation, the Dorot Foundation, the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the South Central Modern Language Association, and The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies.
2010-2011 Fellowship Poster (PDF)
2010-2011 Fellowship Application Instructions
Fellowship Guidelines (PDF)
Fellows on Fellowships: Video Interviews
Since the inception of its fellowship program in 1990, the Ransom Center has hosted more than 500 scholars as fellows. Awarded annually by the Ransom Center, the research fellowships in the humanities support scholarly projects that concentrate on the Center's collections.
Listen to recent fellows discuss their research, explain the process of working with primary source materials, and describe the benefits of having access to such materials.
Christine Ferguson
University of Glasgow
“The Eugenic Impulse in British Writing, 1850-1930”
Alison Macor
Independent Scholar
“In Batman's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren”
John Wilson
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
“Evelyn Waugh in the Military and the Church”
View more interviews with fellows
Research at the Ransom Center
– Death and the Puppet
– Graham Greene's Revisions in The Power and the Glory
– War in the Archives: Elizabeth Bowen
– Bernard Malamud Biography Draws on Ransom Center Materials
– Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett: Treasures in the Archives
– A Postcard For Your Thoughts
– Miss Universe, Mr. Uris, and The Archive
Scholarly Publications
There is a long history of celebrated works that resulted from research conducted in the Ransom Center's collections. Some recent publications follow.
Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays
Ed Folsom, Susan Belasco, and Kenneth M. Price, Eds.
(Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2007)
Tennessee Williams Notebooks
Margaret Bradham Thornton, Ed.
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006)
T. H. White's Troubled Heart: Women in The Once and Future King
Kurth Sprague
(Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007)
Fellowship Recipients
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