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 …
Stephanie Rambo is an assistant professor of English at George Mason University. She specializes in African American literature, Black Girlhood Studies, Diasporic Black theory, and Women and Gender Studies. She is currently working on her first a book monograph which examines literary and visual depictions of Black girlhood in African American literature. This past December Read More …
纪念埃默里大学校友林乐知(Young John Allen)启航远渡中国164 周年 by Guo-hua Wang, Emory Libraries’ Chinese Studies librarian and Head of the International Area Studies Team December 18, 1859 was the start of Young John Allen’s 209-day voyage to China from New York with his young wife and infant daughter. The family spent Christmas and New Year’s Day on the ship, enduring Read More …
Kyler Schubkegel is 2nd-year Ph.D. student in English at the University of Notre Dame with a focus on 20th-century American literature. He was a recipient of the Rose Library Short-Term Award Fellowship, which he used to research in the Marie Ponsot papers. I had the great privilege of spending three weeks at the Rose Library Read More …
By Anicka Austin, Collections Processing Archivist. The Kathleen Cleaver papers will be closed for processing starting January 1, 2024. The papers of African American activist and lawyer, Kathleen Cleaver were acquired in 2020 by the late Dr. Pellom McDaniels, former Curator of African American collections. The collection includes photographs, printed material, audiovisual and born digital Read More …
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 …
written by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist for Rose Library. This month, visitors to the For Keeps Bookstore and Auburn Avenue Research Library will have the opportunity to watch performances curated by Sierra King and Rose Library’s Anicka Austin. The pair have been working together on a dance and performance-based activation that reflects their archival 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 …
by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers This is the fourth post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. “Making photographs represents a very personal, life-long pursuit, rather than a chronological record of events or places.” – Lucinda Bunnen After accessioning and minimally processing the first 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 …
