Andrew Kingston is the 2018-2019 Robert W. Woodruff Fellow at the Rose Library. Throughout the year, he will be blogging about his experience processing the records of The American Music Show. This is my final post on the Rose Library’s blog as the 2018-2019 Robert W. Woodruff Fellow. It’s been a really enlightening and unique Read More …
Brianna McGruder is an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and an intern with the Charlotte Queer Oral Histories Project. Briana was the 2019 recipient of a Rose Library scholarship to attend the Queer History South Conference, organized by the Invisible Histories Project. The conference was held March 28-29, 2019 in Birmingham, AL. The Read More …
Ramsey Baden (19C) is a senior in English and Creative Writing, and the recipient of a Currey Seminar travel award to conduct research in Taiwan. When I started college, I began realizing just how much I missed my home in Taiwan. I began devoting massive amounts of energy to my new quest: I was to Read More …
In February 2019, Sean DiLeonardi conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short-Term Fellowship Program. Mr. DiLeonardi is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Thanks to a research fellowship from the Stuart A. Rose Library at Emory University, Read More …
Jina DuVernay is the Visiting Archivist for African American Collections at the Rose Library. She will be blogging regularly throughout her appointment. Prior to joining Rose, I was a Special Collections Librarian at Alabama State University where I managed African American related resources and materials. I came to the Rose to learn how to work Read More …
Andrew Kingston is the 2018-2019 Robert W. Woodruff Fellow at the Rose Library. Throughout the year, he will be blogging about his experience processing the records of The American Music Show. At the Rose Library this year, I have been working with recordings of The American Music Show (TAMS), an Atlanta-based queer variety show that Read More …
Andrew Kingston is the 2018-2019 Robert W. Woodruff Fellow at the Rose Library. Throughout the year, he will be blogging about his experience processing the records of The American Music Show. Not long ago, I arrived in the archive, on my second cup of coffee, and proceeded—from the Latin cedere, both “to go” and “to Read More …
In December 2018, Scott McKendry conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short Term Fellowship Program. Mr. McKendry is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast. Poets love gossip. In fact, one might argue that poetry itself is a form of highly-tuned gossip. Poets tells the not quite truth about the Read More …
This free event, open to Atlanta area K-12 educators and administrators, begins at the Carlos Museum and ends at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library as we co-host our Evening for Educators. Participants can explore both locations and learn more about the exhibitions “DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance” by Dr. Read More …
Andrew Kingston is the 2018-2019 Robert W. Woodruff Fellow at the Rose Library. Throughout the year, he will be blogging about his experience processing the records of The American Music Show. Shortly after writing this first blog post, I was, along with the rest of the Rose Library, deeply saddened to hear of the passing Read More …
In July 2018, Dr. Anna Ioanes conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short Term Fellowship program. Dr. Ioanes is Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis. Archival research can be a suspenseful experience. The researcher turns pages and opens boxes, hoping to find something that is yet Read More …
The Library of Congress recently announced a completed digitization project focusing on the collection of Frederick Olmsted. As a manuscript archivist who has worked with the papers of the Druid Hills Civic Association (DHCA) and the Dana White papers, I knew immediately that the Library of Congress had missed highlighting Olmsted’s work in the South, Read More …
