Fellowships

About 50 fellowships are awarded annually by the Ransom Center to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities. Priority is given to proposals that concentrate on the Center's collections and that require substantial on-site use of them.

The fellowships range from one month to two to four 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, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, South Central Modern Language Association and The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies.

2009-2010 Fellowship Application Instructions (HTML)
2009-2010 Fellowship Poster (PDF)
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.

Ulrika Maude

University of Durham
"Perception, Textual Genetics and Aesthetics in the Work of Samuel Beckett"

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Axel Stähler

University of Kent at Canterbury
"The Playwright as Author Icon: The Case of Arnold Wesker"

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Research at the Ransom Center

– 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.