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 …
By The Be Present Team The Rose Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of two dynamic collections, the Be Present Inc. records, and the Lillie P. Allen papers. The Lillie P. Allen papers and the Be Present, Inc. records together tell the story of how one visionary leader can ignite change and create an 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 Shanna Early, Instruction Archivist Congratulations to all students who submitted research projects for consideration for the 2024 Schuchard and Rackoff Undergraduate Research Prizes. The submissions this year show the efficacy of undergraduate humanities education at Emory, and we are thrilled that we get to be a part of it. Schuchard Prize Named for Goodrich 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 …
By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist Are you eagerly awaiting the second part of season 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton? Us too! To tide us all over, I have selected twelve of Rose Library’s rare books that were published during or near the regency period. But first – what is the regency period? The regency Read More …
By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist The air is getting unbearably hot and muggy, mosquitoes are getting bolder, kids are out of school, a different colleague is out every week on vacation, and you’re fighting your first sunburn in months. All this means one thing – it’s summer! And summer includes June, during which we celebrate Read More …
by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist Taylor Swift is a household name, and for good reason – over the last 18 years she has written and recorded over 300 songs, changed genres multiple times, headlined sold out stadium tours, and shattered record after record. She has recorded eleven studio albums, each with their own feel and Read More …
