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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Erin Glogowski, Program Operations Coordinator at Rose Library The Rose Library offers a variety of fellowships and awards to support travel for researchers to come to Emory to conduct research in our holdings for Short-Term Fellowships and Subject Specific Fellowships. We will be accepting applications for the upcoming 2025 fellowship cycle from December 1st through February 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 …
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 …
