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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, our regular award cycle is temporarily suspended. We hope to resume the application process in 2022 for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Research centers come alive when scholars actively engage with the materials and resources housed in these institutions. To that end, fellowships are available to support residencies at the Ransom Center for projects that require substantial on-site use of its collections.

  • Ransom Center Fellowship Program & Guidelines

    The Ransom Center's internationally renowned collections support research in all areas of the humanities including literature, photography, film, art, performing arts, music, cultural history, and humanity more broadly.

    Research projects might include: scholarly articles or monographs, dissertations, creative work, digital humanities, performance-based research, exhibition proposals, research-based syllabi to grow student research, collaborative research, or other research projects around the collections. We are open to both traditional and innovative research proposals to animate the collections. The Ransom Center is especially interested in proposals from candidates who can contribute to diversity and excellence as we strive to grow a vital, inclusive research culture.

    Fellowship Guidelines (updated 4/2020)

    Articles by and about fellows in the Ransom Center Magazine

    Videos about fellowships and research at the Ransom Center

  • History of the Harry Ransom Center Fellowship Program

    The Harry Ransom Center fellowship program was established in 1989 under the directorship of Thomas F. Staley to encourage and facilitate use of the Center's collections for scholarly inquiry. Through fellowship stipends, the program enables scholars from around the world to visit the Center to conduct on-site research in its collections, supporting scholarship in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.

    The first fellowships were offered in 1990–1991 to eight scholars, five of whom visited from abroad. Support for these fellowships was provided by the Henriette F. and Clarence L. Cline Endowment, the South Central Modern Language Association, and general operating funds of the Ransom Center. In the following years, the Center worked to grow the program through the creation of additional endowments. With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and other donors, the Center established a $1.5 million endowment to ensure the continuation of the fellowship program in perpetuity; with support from The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies, dissertation fellowships were introduced to the program to encourage archival research among a new generation of scholars.

    Today the program hosts more than 50 fellows each year, sustained by the generous support of several entities including the Dorot Foundation, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Fleur Cowles Endowment Fund, the Limited Editions Club Endowment, the Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf Fellowship, the David Douglas Duncan Endowment for Photojournalism, and the Robert De Niro Endowed Fund.

    The fellows' wide-ranging and interdisciplinary research topics reflect the breadth of the Center's holdings. Recent publications based on fellowship research include Understanding Diane Johnson (University of South Carolina Press, 2012) by Carloyn A. Durham, who held a 2010–2011 fellowship funded by the Filmscript Acquisitions Endowment; Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents (University of California Press, 2009) by Tom Kemper, who held a 2007–2008 fellowship funded by the Warren Skaaren Film Research Endowment; and The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature, and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) by Guy Ortolano, who held a 2006–2007 fellowship funded by the British Studies program at The University of Texas at Austin. Anne Wilkes Tucker's 2007–2008 fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment helped shape her landmark 2012–2013 exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

    During their residencies at the Ransom Center, fellows help foster an environment of intellectual exchange. Throughout the year, the Center hosts lunches and weekly coffee gatherings that create opportunities for fellows, independent research visitors, Ransom Center staff, and other members of the University community to discuss the work taking place within the Center's collections. Fellows have also presented talks to the Ransom Center's members and to University and community groups during their visits, and have participated in video interviews and contributed articles for the Center's website, newsletter, and blog. These presentations highlight the significance of the Ransom Center's holdings to a broad audience.

    Since the program's inauguration in 1990, the Center has awarded fellowships to more than 1,200 scholars.

  • External Fellowships

    Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

    The International Placement Scheme (IPS) is an annual program providing Research Fellowships to AHRC/ESRC-funded doctoral students, early career researchers and doctoral-level research assistants.

    The purpose of the call (described as an 'IPS Fellowship') is to provide early career researchers (ECR), doctoral level research assistants and AHRC/ESRC funded doctoral students with dedicated access to internationally renowned collections/programs/expertise.


    Bibliographical Society of America (BSA)

    The Harry Ransom Center co-sponsors two annual research fellowships with the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA), the oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects. The BSA was organized in 1904 and incorporated in 1927 with the principal objectives of promoting bibliographical research and issuing bibliographical publications.

    The BSA-Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography (two awards annually at $3,000 each) supports the bibliographical study of medieval and early modern books and manuscripts held in the Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Library and its other wide-ranging collections.


    Fulbright-Creative Ireland Museum Fellowship

    A post-graduate student will be awarded a Fulbright-Creative Ireland Museum Fellowship to complete short-term research at the Harry Ransom Center.

    Proposed research projects should engage substantively with the Ransom Center's collections and must demonstrate a commitment to innovation and creativity, and include plans for both scholarly and community engagement.

  • Sponsors
    • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
    • Ben Bradlee Fellowship in Journalism
    • British Studies Fellowship of the British Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin
    • Fleur Cowles Endowment Fund
    • Robert De Niro Endowed Fund
    • Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies
    • David Douglas Duncan Endowment for Photojournalism
    • Edwin Gale Fellowship of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
    • Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf Fellowship
    • Limited Editions Club Endowment
    • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment
    • Marlene Nathan Meyerson Photography Fellowship Endowment
    • Arnold Newman Fellowship in Photography
    • Carl H. Pforzheimer Endowment
    • C. P. Snow Memorial Fund
    • South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)
    • Frederic D. Weinstein Memorial Fellowship
    • Woodward and Bernstein Endowment
    • The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies
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