Harry Ransom Center Now Accepting Applications For 2010 Research Fellowships

Harry Ransom Center's annual Research Fellowships in the Humanities, which funds some 50 assorted scholarly endeavors, is now accepting applications for the 2010-2011 academic year. The program provides stipends of up to three months ($3,000 per month), with additional funds provided for travel. Applicants must either be post-dos or "independent scholars with a substantial record of scholarly achievement." For an idea of the vast range of possible topics you might pitch, past topics have included: "The Rise of the British Detective Novel," "Photography on the Border: Picturing and Constructing the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," and "A True Account of the Design, and Advantages of the South-Sea Trade: Profits, Propaganda, and the Peace Preliminaries of 1711." [Fellowships]