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 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 …
Josh Renaud is a journalist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He publishes computer history research on his website, Break Into Chat. He is interested in recovering lost or obscure software, and telling the stories of the people who made and used it. He was a 2024 recipient of the Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Read More …
Chase H. McCarter is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of New Mexico. He is currently a Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow in the Humanities. Chase’s research interests include the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, the nineteenth-century U.S. South, nineteenth-century U.S.-Latin American relations, war and society, and the Read More …
Dominic D’Amour is a doctoral candidate in Social and Presidential History at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. He is a 2024 Visiting Research Fellow for Political & Social Movements. I had a very wonderful and productive experience diving into the archives of the Rose Library at Emory University. This magnificent library houses the Read More …
Rachel Kirk is a PhD student in French Studies at Louisiana State University. She is interested in how colonial-shaped environmental changes and disasters have influenced literary and cultural production in Louisiana and the broader Francophone and Creole-speaking Caribbean. Rachel is a recipient of an African American History and Culture short term fellowship for visiting researchers. Read More …
Sinclair Spratley is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History & Archeology at Columbia University. She is the 2024 recipient of the Benny Andrews Award, which provides funding for researchers exploring the collection of visual artist, teacher, activist, critic, and writer Benny Andrews. I had the privilege of spending time in the vast Read More …
by Corey Stout, Rice University’s Department of Art History. Visiting Research Fellow for African American History and Culture. I recently had the privilege of visiting the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library to examine the papers of John T. Biggers (1924-2001), an important muralist and educator at Texas Southern University in Houston. Read More …
Stephanie Rambo is an assistant professor of English at George Mason University. She specializes in African American literature, Black Girlhood Studies, Diasporic Black theory, and Women and Gender Studies. She is currently working on her first a book monograph which examines literary and visual depictions of Black girlhood in African American literature. This past December Read More …
