by the Rose Library Sustainability Committee Event announcement: “Watersheds: Critical Moments for Archives and the Environment” – April 22, 2025, 10:00am-3:30pm Since forming in 2019, the Rose Library Sustainability Committee has been dedicated to aligning archival work with the work of environmental justice. As part of this commitment, we research current thinking around archives and climate Read More …
by the African American Collections Team The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library holds over 1,200 titles within Emory University Libraries’ (EUL) African American Periodical Collection. These materials are often referred to as serials, which are publications issued at fixed intervals. Our serials range from journals to magazines and newspapers, and many Read More …
Bethany Bell is a PhD Student in the history department at the University of Virginia. She is also the 2024 recipient of Rose Library’s Dana White Graduate Fellowships for Research in Atlanta History, which supports research into the the development, history, culture, social movements, and politics of Atlanta. In 1864, during the fourth year of Read More …
By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist Emory Libraries will once again be taking part in the national Douglass Day festivities on February 14th from 12pm-3pm in Rose Library. This annual event is free and open to the public. We ask that you register at this link, but it is not required. If you are able, bring Read More …
Arièle Dionne-Krosnick is a Ph.D. candidate in Architecture at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her dissertation, “Swimming Pools, Civil Rights, and the American City in the 1960s,” proposes that Black civil rights protests that took place at swimming pools contesting unjust racial and spatial segregation had the potential to radically transform the symbolic and physical Read More …
Dr. Christina J. Thomas is the 2023-2025 Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Scholar at the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University. Her current research projects explore Black women’s intellectual history, biography, and early childhood education. I met Alice Walker in November 2023 at the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival hosted by the Margaret Walker Center in Read More …
Desiree McCray entered the world, hailing from Chicago, Illinois. A womanist scholar and prophetic scribe, she crafts essays, poetry, and scholarly research, delving into themes of race, gender, bodies, and class, at the intersection of Black religion and culture. McCray, a poet, released three collections of poems: My Sisters Look Like God: A Womanist Manifesto Read More …
Guyanese-born Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Florida State University and is a 2024-25 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at The Huntington Library, Los Angeles. As a curator-scholar of contemporary art of the Global South, her curatorial research practice examines the links and Read More …
Samantha Ege is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southhampton in the United Kingdom. She is a 2024 Rose Library Visiting Research Fellow in the area of African American History and Culture. When you spend any amount of time with the materials of Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989), aka the Dean of Black women Read More …
By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library Ready to get deep into the Halloween spirit this October? You have some great opportunities at Emory’s Libraries, including a blood drive! Blood Drive on October 30th Emory Libraries and Museum Wellness Committee is sponsoring a blood drive with the American Red Cross on Oct. 30 from Read More …
by Robinson Ensz and Katie Lanning. Katie Lanning is an assistant professor of English at Wichita State University, with research and teaching interests in 18th century British media & culture and in the history of the book. Katie is a 2024 Rose Visiting Research Fellow for English-Language Poetry and Literature. Her research partner, Robinson Ensz Read More …
Summer Perritt is a History PhD candidate at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Her work looks at the return migration of Black Americans to the U.S. South in the post-civil rights period. Her project consists of oral history interviews with migrants as well as traditional archival sources such as those collected by the Stuart A. Read More …
