by Mariah Isbell, Visiting Archivist for the Jim Alexander Photographs. I am ecstatic and grateful to be the Visiting Archivist for the Jim Alexander Photographs at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library of Emory University Libraries. The visiting archivist position is a three-year grant funded project made capable by the Getty Read More …
Lauren Ashley Bradford is a graduate student at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her dissertation, “With Blood on their Stockings: Women’s Public Participation in Racial Terror in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America”, takes a feminist comparative approach to women as perpetrators of violence in Nazi Read More …
Kache’ Attyana Mumford is a poet, writer, therapist, and actor from Jacksonville, Florida. She is a 2025-2026 recipient of Rose Library’s African American history and culture short-term fellowship. “O Black Slave Singer, gone, forgot, unfamed. You alone in the long, long line of those who’ve sung untaught, unknown, unnamed have stretched out upward, seeking the divine.” — The Book of American Negro Read More …
Nicole Adrian is currently a history doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on how federal U.S. agricultural credit programs and farm debt shaped inequality, the formation of agribusiness, and environmental degradation during the twentieth century. Prior to Penn, Nicole studied history, environmental studies, conservation biology, and public policy at the University Read More …
Travis L. Wagner is a 2025-2026 recipient of Rose Library’s LGBTQ Collections Fellowship, which supports research in Rose Library’s LGBTQ related papers and archives that document the history, culture, politics, and public health initiatives. My name is Travis Wagner (they/them) and I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University Read More …
Isaiah Frost Rivera (He/They) is a PhD candidate in the African and African Diaspora Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include queer and trans Afrodiasporic expressive cultures, with a focus on grief and horror. Isaiah is a 2025-2026 recipient of Rose Library’s African American history and culture short term Read More …
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 …
