By Anicka Austin, Collections Processing Archivist. The Kathleen Cleaver papers will be closed for processing starting January 1, 2024. The papers of African American activist and lawyer, Kathleen Cleaver were acquired in 2020 by the late Dr. Pellom McDaniels, former Curator of African American collections. The collection includes photographs, printed material, audiovisual and born digital Read More …
Joel Silverman is a photographer, commercial filmmaker, and educator. He is currently an adjunct professor at Emory University, where he teaches photography and filmmaking with a focus on digital futurism, photographic art history, printmaking, and historic darkroom processes. He was a 2023 recipient of the Rose Library’s Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Collections Research Read More …
Yunfei Bai teaches translation and cross-cultural studies at Lingan University in Hong Kong. He is currently writing a book that uses previously unstudied primary sources in Tibetan, Chinese, French, and English to reconstruct a set of singular interfaith encounters between Chinese/Tibetan Buddhists and Westerners occurring in the first half of the twentieth century. James Cobb Read More …
Mark Thomas-Patterson is an MA candidate in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studies US and Russian history. He was a recipient of the Rose Library’s Rose Library Short-Term Award Fellowship, which he used to research in the Senator Sam Nunn papers. I came to the Stuart A. Rose Read More …
By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library. The John Moore Bram Stoker collection at Rose Library is a vast archive dedicated to the life and legacy of Irish author Bram Stoker (1847-1912). Put simply, the Stoker collection is big. It contains nearly 4,000 items and approximately 1,500 books (mostly 19th and early 20th century Read More …
Erena Nakashima is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Cincinnati with a concentration on Public history. Her dissertation examines the life and work of Carroll Greene Jr., a Black museum professional as a window of institutional formation of Black Public history movement in the late twentieth century, the longstanding effort among Black Read More …
By Charmaine Branch (she/her), PhD Candidate in Art History at Princeton University with a Graduate Certificate in African American Studies. This August I visited the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University to study the formation of Hatch-Billops Collection Inc. In 1975, Camille Billops and James V. Hatch founded an archive Read More …
by Jennifer Gunter King, Director of the Rose Library. The Rose Library remembers Nobel-prize winning poet Seamus Heaney – an extraordinary poet and friend – on the 10th anniversary of his death. At the center of the Rose Library’s modern literature and poetry holdings are the papers of Seamus Heaney, whose poetry and influence as Read More …
By Randy Gue, Kayla Annan, Jonathan Coulis, and Jennifer Gunter King. The new school year has arrived, and the Rose Library has a variety of new collections available for use, research, and teaching. These exciting acquisitions span our collecting strengths—African American history and culture, Emory Oral History Program, Emory University Archives, literary and poetry collections, Read More …
By Joseph DeLeon, a 2023 LGBTQ Collections Fellow. I came to the Rose Library this Summer to watch television. I devoted my time to the world’s longest-running public access cable show, The American Music Show, which aired on Atlanta’s People TV cable channel from 1981 to 2005. Dick Richards and his friends produced the program Read More …
by Shanna Early, Instruction Archivist at Rose Library Congratulations to all students who submitted research projects for consideration for the 2023 Schuchard and Rackoff Undergraduate Research Prizes. The work we received reflected the academic excellence of Emory’s undergraduate humanities programs, and The Rose Library is proud to be a part of educating scholars and leaders Read More …
Annika Schadewaldt is a Ph.D. candidate in American literature with a focus on post-45 novels at Leipzig University, Germany. She is a 2023 Rose Library Short-Term Research Fellow. I came to the Rose library to be able to look at the papers of William Melvin Kelley, Jr., a Black postwar author who has only recently Read More …
