by Laura Starratt, Head of Archives Processing for Rose Library Jim Alexander, African American activist and photographer, is one of the most celebrated photographers of African American life and history in the United States, but he is also a renowned educator, business owner, rare book collector, and activist. His papers were first acquired in 2014 Read More …
María Amor Barros-del Río is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Burgos, Spain and former Secretary of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (2019-2025). Her research focuses on contemporary Irish literature, particularly women’s writing. She is the author of several monographs and the editor of Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society: Breaking New Ground (Routledge, 2024). Her work has been recognized by positive reviews in Read More …
Alexandra Nicome is a 2025-2026 recipient of the Billops-Hatch Fellowship, which supports researchers working in the Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives. Among its various holdings, the Billops-Hatch archives has more than 1,200 play scripts written by African Americans, 1,400 interviews with various artists, and a library of rare and unique books and periodicals. Read More …
Faiza Khan is a graduate student in the Art History department at Binghamton University whose focus lays in the history of modern architecture in South Asia as well as the intersections of Eastern and Western material cultures. Faiza received the 2025 Rose Library Fellowship for Southern History & Culture. My time in the Stuart Rose Read More …
Emily Hawk is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Dickinson College. Her research examines Black modern dance as a form of intellectual and political life in the twentieth century United States. She earned her Ph.D. in U.S. History at Columbia University and previously served as postdoctoral research associate in African American Studies at Princeton Read More …
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant is a womanist sociologist and the Louise R. Noun ’29 Chair in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at Grinnell College. The author of Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of Costly Performance (2009) and To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Read More …
Casey Johnson is a PhD student in Indiana University Bloomington’s Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies department. He was the 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s Marcus Garvey Foundation Research Fellowship. As I made my way to Emory University’s campus, weaving through surrounding hills of historic homes and a lush green golf course I Read More …
Kaylen Smith is a History Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. Her dissertation explores the transition from the modern civil rights movement into the Black Power era through the lens of religious expression and activism. Kaylen received a Stuart A. Rose Library Short-Term fellowship to study the Vincent A. Harding papers and the Rosemarie Freeney Harding Read More …
Chanelle Rose is a professor of History at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. She specializes in Modern American history with particular emphasis on African American history, post-WWII America, Civil Rights-Black Power, tourism, conservatism, and urban history. Rose is a a 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s African American History and Culture Visiting Researcher Fellowship. There Read More …
Crystal Nelson is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Colorado Boulder whose research and teaching focuses on Black art and Black visual culture(s) as articulated through painting, photography, film/video, and performance. They are a 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s African American History and Culture Visiting Researcher Fellowship. I have recently begun Read More …
Joshua Massey is a Ph.D. candidate at Bard Graduate Center, where they study the art and material culture of the contemporary American South. Their dissertation explores the yard environments of artists Lonnie Holley, Mary Tillman Smith, Dinah Young, and Joe Minter, and the ways in which they function as sites of Black creative, social, and Read More …
Alexandre Dossin is Professor of Piano and Chair of Keyboard at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance. Originally from Brazil, he is a graduate from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia) and holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin (USA). Alexandre is a 2024 recipient of Rose Library’s African American Read More …
