Category: Following the Fellows

Edna O’Brien’s Papers: A Transcultural Writer?

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

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 …

Mixed Materials: Reflections on the Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

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 …

Beholding Geoffrey Holder’s Wiz: Dance, Beauty, and Spectacle in the Holder-de Lavallade Papers

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

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 …

Transnational Liminal Spaces: Reflections from the Marcus Garvey Fellowship at Emory’s Rose Library

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Casey Johnson is a PhD student in Indiana University Bloomington’s Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies department. He was the 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s Marcus Garvey Foundation Research Fellowship. As I made my way to Emory University’s campus, weaving through surrounding hills of historic homes and a lush green golf course I Read More …

The Hardings, Academic Activism, and Religion as Orientation

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Kaylen Smith is a History Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. Her dissertation explores the transition from the modern civil rights movement into the Black Power era through the lens of religious expression and activism. Kaylen received a Stuart A. Rose Library Short-Term fellowship to study the Vincent A. Harding papers and the Rosemarie Freeney Harding Read More …

Conservative Currents in Black America: Grassroots Struggles Against “Black-on-Black Crime” and the Urban Crisis Post-1960s

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Chanelle Rose is a professor of History at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. She specializes in Modern American history with particular emphasis on African American history, post-WWII America, Civil Rights-Black Power, tourism, conservatism, and urban history. Rose is a a 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s African American History and Culture Visiting Researcher Fellowship.  There Read More …

The Importance of Safe Space in Black Cultural Production: Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, 1960s-1970s 

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Crystal Nelson is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Colorado Boulder whose research and teaching focuses on Black art and Black visual culture(s) as articulated through painting, photography, film/video, and performance. They are a 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s African American History and Culture Visiting Researcher Fellowship. I have recently begun Read More …

Digging into ‘Souls Grown Deep’

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Joshua Massey is a Ph.D. candidate at Bard Graduate Center, where they study the art and material culture of the contemporary American South. Their dissertation explores the yard environments of artists Lonnie Holley, Mary Tillman Smith, Dinah Young, and Joe Minter, and the ways in which they function as sites of Black creative, social, and Read More …

Creating Enchantment: a History of the Gothic and Inspiring Interactive Reading 

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

Edward Hyunsoo Yang is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A scholar of British literature of the long eighteenth century, he has particular interests in: authenticity, experimentation with literary form and genre, the Gothic, the history of the novel, influences of popular culture, the material book, and narrative performance. Read More …

Marlon Riggs & The Contexts of Twentieth-Century Black Queer Cultural Production

Posted onAuthorGaby Hale

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 …