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The Door to Opportunity: Undergraduate Internships at the Ransom Center
Undergraduate intern Kelsey McKinney with the authors' door at the Ransom Center. Photo by Pete Smith. Each academic year, the Ransom Center hosts undergraduate interns sponsored by various programs...
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Photo Friday
Each Friday, the Ransom Center shares photos from throughout the week that highlight a range of activities and collection holdings. We hope you enjoy these photos that reveal some of the everyday...
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Video: The Undergraduate Visitor at the Ransom Center
Each year, thousands of undergraduates come to the Harry Ransom Center to visit with a class, attend one the Center’s programs, or view an exhibition. Since its founding, the Ransom Center has been an...
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English Honors seminar course on David Foster Wallace gives undergraduates a...
Graduate intern Jenn Shapland, center, shares annotated books from Wallace’s library and research materials he used while writing “Infinite Jest.” Photo by Pete Smith. Before spring of last year, I had...
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Ransom Center to offer summer undergraduate internships
Former undergraduate intern Rachel Platis worked on selecting photographs for an exhibition. Photo by Pete Smith. The Harry Ransom Center will support six undergraduate internships during the summer of...
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Seminar exposes students to the Ransom Center’s photography holdings
Dr. Sherre L. Paris, a lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin's School of Journalism, teaches the class “A Cultural History of Photography” at the Ransom Center. Photo by Pete Smith. Dr. Sherre...
View ArticleNotes from the Undergrad: Feeling Samuel Beckett’s pain and “Godot” in German
Lily Pipkin was a Plan II student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays, texts, dramatists,...
View ArticleNotes from the Undergrad: Reviving Linda Loman in “Death of a Salesman”
Kenneth Williams is an English and Plan I Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better understand plays,...
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Maureen Clark is a third-year government and Liberal Arts Honors student in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the course, students used resources at the Harry Ransom Center to better...
View ArticleDrama in the Archives: Undergraduate Research at the Ransom Center
After discussing his own work in the Harry Ransom Center’s archives with students in his Humanities classes, Dr. Elon Lang realized that despite his students’ interest in what he suggested could be...
View ArticleNotes from the Undergrad: Archive, cultural consciousness, and a semester in...
Colin McLaughlin is a radio-television-film, rhetoric and writing, and Plan I Honors senior in Dr. Elon Lang’s “Drama in the Archives” course. In the class, students used resources at the Harry Ransom...
View ArticleMuddy Bootprints on Himmler’s Copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. I grew up in Holland where the fifth of May is celebrated as “Bevrijdingsdag,” named for the liberation from German occupation that my...
View ArticleUndergraduate class experiences advertising hands-on with “Alice’s Adventures...
Galit Marmor-Lavie is a professor at The University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication. This semester she brought students in her undergraduate Advertising and Popular Culture class,...
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Kathleen (Katy) Telling is a Plan I Honors Junior at The University of Texas at Austin, majoring in History and French. She’s taking Dr. Robert Abzug’s “Religion and Psychology in Modern American...
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