Audrey Florey is a Ph.D. candidate in Visual Studies at the University of Missouri with an emphasis in American art history. Her dissertation examines the work of women artist-educators who dedicated their life to establishing and cultivating a diverse array of art programs within numerous cultural institutions across the United States. Beginning in the late Read More …
Amanda Stafford is a PhD student at the University of Leeds in the UK. Her research looks at the interconnected histories of the radical press and the New Left in Georgia between 1968 and 1976. I was awarded a Stuart A. Rose Short Term Fellowship back in 2020 at the height of the Covid lockdown Read More …
Daniel Royles is an Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University in Miami. He is the recipient of a Rose Library short-term research fellowship. A short-term fellowship from the Rose Library at Emory University gave me the opportunity to do on-site archival research in the records of SCLC/Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now (SCLC/W.O.M.E.N.), Read More …
Yanyi is a writer and critic, author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World 2022) and The Year of Blue Water (Yale 2019), winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has been featured in or at NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space. The recipient of fellowships from Asian Read More …
Siân Round is very near to finishing a PhD in English at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines literary magazines in the American South between 1921 and 1945. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, The Cambridge Quarterly, and Review of English Studies. Who was Ernest Read More …
Sid Ahmed ZIANE is a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University. He studies African American history and his area of interest revolves around race and media in Post-war America. He is currently working on a project which looks at the correlation between the modern black print media and the modern black liberation movement in the US. Read More …
Colin Newton is a writer from Los Angeles whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Ignatian, Westwind, Maudlin House, Red Planet Magazine, The Fabulist and Northridge Review. Newton was a 2018 Trillium Project resident at Oregon State University’s Shotpouch Cabin, and has years of experience as a freelance writer and writing instructor. Research conducted Read More …
Andrew Harrison Baker, Ph.D., is a Lecturer of History in the Department of History and Geography at Clemson University. His research focuses on focuses on politics, economic development, and southern cities in the post-World War II South with a particular interest in the Sunbelt era. My introduction to southern Jewish history began in October 2018 Read More …
Josina Guess is a writer and editor with more than 20 years experience in non-profit, faith-based, arts and cross-cultural communication in urban and rural settings. She is the 2022 recipient of The Nancy and Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Culture. The Nancy and Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Read More …
Mattie C. Webb is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studies 20th century U.S. and African history. She was a recipient of the Rose Library’s African American Short Term Research Fellowship, which she used to research in the Leon H. Sullivan Papers. My first Read More …
Kayleigh Whitman is a fifth year PhD student at Vanderbilt University. She studies American Religious History with a special focus on questions of race, religion, and activism. She is the recipient of the 2020 Nancy and Randall Burkett Fellowship. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, African American women were the vanguard of the international struggle Read More …
The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition: Direct Action and Attica Prison Chad Dawkins is a visiting assistant professor of Art History and Curatorial Practices at Spelman College. He was the recipient of the 2022 Benny Andrews Award, which provides funding for researchers exploring the collection of visual artist, teacher, activist, critic, and writer Benny Andrews. In Read More …
