Harry Ransom Center Fellows Hail from Seven Countries

The Harry Ransom Center has announced the recipients of its 2026-2027 research fellowships, who will travel to Austin from across the globe to research in their chosen humanities fields. These fellowships last between one week and two months, and are available to doctoral students, current and former academic faculty at any career level and independent researchers such as journalists and artists.   

This year’s cohort includes 47 postdoctoral scholars, graduate students and independent researchers from 15 states and seven countries, including Australia, Canada, Italy, Macau, Poland and the United Kingdom. 

Their research interests reflect the geographic and disciplinary breadth of the Ransom Center’s holdings, including topics such as the circulation of photographs in colonial India, changing visual representations of the wilderness in North and South America, the early history of true crime television programming and scholarly editions of Percy Shelley’s correspondence and poems by Lord Byron and the Brontë sisters. 

Now entering its 37th year, the Ransom Center Fellowship Program has supported more than 1,500 research projects that required extensive on-site use of the center’s collections, resulting in the publication of academic monographs, dissertations, journal articles, novels and other creative works.  

Ransom Center fellows are members of a vibrant social and intellectual community. In addition to attending author talks, film screenings and other public programs, they also enjoy opportunities throughout their fellowship to discuss their research with the center’s staff and UT faculty.  

Learn more about this year’s fellows on the Ransom Center’s website.