Women Perpetrators and Racial Violence During Jim Crow: Findings from the Rose Library

Lauren Ashley Bradford is a graduate student at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her dissertation, “With Blood on their Stockings: Women’s Public Participation in Racial Terror in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America”, takes a feminist comparative approach to women as perpetrators of violence in Nazi Read More …

Speechless: The Reclaiming of Negro Spirituals Through Artistic and Therapeutic Research 

Kache’ Attyana Mumford is a poet, writer, therapist, and actor from Jacksonville, Florida. She is a 2025-2026 recipient of Rose Library’s African American history and culture short-term fellowship.  “O Black Slave Singer, gone, forgot, unfamed. You alone in the long, long line of those who’ve sung untaught, unknown, unnamed have stretched out upward, seeking the divine.”  — The Book of American Negro Read More …

Self-Help for Agribusiness: Farm Debt, the Rural US Landscape, and the Federal Credit System, 1898–1987

Nicole Adrian is currently a history doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on how federal U.S. agricultural credit programs and farm debt shaped inequality, the formation of agribusiness, and environmental degradation during the twentieth century. Prior to Penn, Nicole studied history, environmental studies, conservation biology, and public policy at the University Read More …

“What do we need to know as gays and lesbians? What should we keep up with?”: Network Q and Building Queer Information Ecosystems Before the Internet

Travis L. Wagner is a 2025-2026 recipient of Rose Library’s LGBTQ Collections Fellowship, which supports research in Rose Library’s LGBTQ related papers and archives that document the history, culture, politics, and public health initiatives.  My name is Travis Wagner (they/them) and I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University Read More …

“For All The Grief We Know and Meet With”: Finding June Jordan in the Alice Walker Archive

Isaiah Frost Rivera (He/They) is a PhD candidate in the African and African Diaspora Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include queer and trans Afrodiasporic expressive cultures, with a focus on grief and horror. Isaiah is a 2025-2026 recipient of Rose Library’s African American history and culture short term Read More …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …