Sam King-Shaw is a PhD Candidate at the University of Buffalo in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies. Sam’s research explores questions of relationality, desire, (freedom) dreams, and genealogy in twentieth-century Black queer cultural production. They are the 2024 recipient of Rose Library’s LGBTQ Collections Fellowship. In the spring of 2025, I had Read More …
Claude Mohr is an art history Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia studying the histories of modern and contemporary art. Currently, he is interested in the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, focusing in particular on the relationship between transgender studies and Surrealism. Claude was a recipient of a 2024 Rose Read More …
By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist The Rose Library is excited to team up with the Jane Austen Society of North America (Georgia Region) this September to celebrate the life and times of beloved British author, Jane Austen! “Celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen” is an all-day seminar that will include talks from well-known Austen and Read More …
Ebonie Pollock is a PhD Candidate in the History of Art & Architecture department at Harvard University studying Black feminist art histories with a particular focus on Black women sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is the 2024 recipient of the Billops-Hatch Fellowship at Rose Library. I had the privilege of Read More …
Elena Valli is a PhD researcher and Irish Research Council postgraduate fellow at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) working on mid twentieth-century American and British poetry. Her thesis explores the use of Renaissance affective prayer and religious meditation in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, Anthony Hecht, and Geoffrey Hill. Elena received the Rose Visiting Research Fellowship Read More …
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 …
