Faith in the World Community: Sue Bailey Thurman and Black Women’s World Reconstruction, 1920-1950

Kayleigh Whitman is a fifth year PhD student at Vanderbilt University.   She studies American Religious History with a special focus on questions of race, religion, and activism.   She is the recipient of the 2020 Nancy and Randall Burkett Fellowship. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, African American women were the vanguard of the international struggle Read More …

The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition: Direct Action and Attica Prison

The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition: Direct Action and Attica Prison Chad Dawkins is a visiting assistant professor of Art History and Curatorial Practices at Spelman College. He was the recipient of the 2022 Benny Andrews Award, which provides funding for researchers exploring the collection of visual artist, teacher, activist, critic, and writer Benny Andrews. In Read More …

Donald Locke Exhibit

  Karen Comer Lowe is currently working as Curator -In-Residence at the Spelman College Museum.  She will be curating a solo exhibition of Donald Locke’s artwork at the Atlanta Contemporary in the Fall of 2024. This will be an independent curatorial project and the second exhibition of Donald Locke’s work that she has curated.  She Read More …

The Letters in Japan: Michael Longley’s Archive

Michael Glenfield received a Short-Term Fellowship to visit Michael Longley’s Archive in the Stuart A. Rose Library.  The visit was also supported by the University of Bristol in England, where Michael has recently finished his PhD. In order to complete the trip Michael was afforded study leave from his lectureship at Bishop Grosseteste University. His Read More …

“Smash the Klan”: Fighting the White Power Movement in the Late Twentieth Century

Benjamin Holzman is an Assistant Professor of History at Lehman College.  His first first book, The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism, is out from Oxford University Press., and his research has also appeared in Modern American History, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Urban History, and several edited collections.    Read More …

Performing Diasporic Time: Enactments of African American History

Julie Burrell is an Associate Professor of English, Black Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Cleveland State University, where she teaches courses in African American literature and drama. Her monograph, The Civil Rights Theatre Movement in New York, 1939-1966: Staging Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), examines the intersections of political theatre and the black freedom Read More …

Wars not Fought: Neutrality and European Navies in American Waters during the US Civil War

Mark Markov is a PhD candidate from Durham University in the United Kingdom. He was awarded a Rose fellowship in support of his research on Wars not Fought: Neutrality and European Navies in American Waters during the US Civil War.  He conducted his research the spring of 2022. David Anderson, a Confederate prisoner of war Read More …

2022 Research Fellowships

  The Rose Library offers a variety of fellowships and awards to support travel for researchers to come to Emory to conduct research in our holdings. Here are links to both our Short-Term Fellowships and Subject Specific Fellowships: Short-Term Fellowships: https://prod.libraries.emory.edu/rose/research-learning/about-fellowship-and-award-opportunities/visiting-researchers/short-term Subject Specific Fellowships: https://prod.libraries.emory.edu/rose/research-and-learning/fellowship-and-award-opportunities/visiting-researchers/subject. We did not offer any fellowships in 2021 because of Read More …

Resistance Zine

In June 2019, Rare Book School received a $1.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in June 2019, “to support the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage, a six-year program which aims to advance multicultural collections through innovative and inclusive curatorial practice and leadership.” After a rigorous selection process, Read More …