Walking Through History: Rose Research in Action

Joel Silverman is a photographer, commercial filmmaker, and educator. He is currently an adjunct professor at Emory University, where he teaches photography and filmmaking with a focus on digital futurism, photographic art history, printmaking, and historic darkroom processes. He was a 2023 recipient of the Rose Library’s Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Collections Research Read More …

James Burke: An American Photojournalist in China

Yunfei Bai teaches translation and cross-cultural studies at Lingan University in Hong Kong. He is currently writing a book that uses previously unstudied primary sources in Tibetan, Chinese, French, and English to reconstruct a set of singular interfaith encounters between Chinese/Tibetan Buddhists and Westerners occurring in the first half of the twentieth century. James Cobb Read More …

Containing Soviet Nuclear Fission: Senator Sam Nunn and Cooperative Threat Reduction

Mark Thomas-Patterson is an MA candidate in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studies US and Russian history. He was a recipient of the Rose Library’s Rose Library Short-Term Award Fellowship, which he used to research in the Senator Sam Nunn papers. I came to the Stuart A. Rose Read More …

NEH Wayfinder Project: Establishing a Linked Data Future for African American Periodicals with the Advisory Board

Over the course of two days, the Wayfinder Project Advisory Board and Project Team met at Emory University on October 24-25, 2022, to consider and determine the opportunities and critical considerations for advancing a linked data version of the Bibliography of African American Periodicals at Emory University. High level take-away from the advisory board meeting Read More …

“The Museum that Greene Built”: Carroll Greene Papers

Erena Nakashima is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Cincinnati with a concentration on Public history. Her dissertation examines the life and work of Carroll Greene Jr., a Black museum professional as a window of institutional formation of Black Public history movement in the late twentieth century, the longstanding effort among Black Read More …

Navigating The Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives

By Charmaine Branch (she/her), PhD Candidate in Art History at Princeton University with a Graduate Certificate in African American Studies.  This August I visited the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University to study the formation of Hatch-Billops Collection Inc. In 1975, Camille Billops and James V. Hatch founded an archive Read More …

15 Notable Rose Library Collections Newly Available for Fall 2023

By Randy Gue, Kayla Annan, Jonathan Coulis, and Jennifer Gunter King.  The new school year has arrived, and the Rose Library has a variety of new collections available for use, research, and teaching. These exciting acquisitions span our collecting strengths—African American history and culture, Emory Oral History Program, Emory University Archives, literary and poetry collections, Read More …

The American Music Show: Atlanta Public Access Television & LGBTQ+ Communities

By Joseph DeLeon, a 2023 LGBTQ Collections Fellow. I came to the Rose Library this Summer to watch television. I devoted my time to the world’s longest-running public access cable show, The American Music Show, which aired on Atlanta’s People TV cable channel from 1981 to 2005. Dick Richards and his friends produced the program Read More …

Celebrating Student Researchers: Rackoff and Schuchard 2023 Winners

by Shanna Early, Instruction Archivist at Rose Library  Congratulations to all students who submitted research projects for consideration for the 2023 Schuchard and Rackoff Undergraduate Research Prizes. The work we received reflected the academic excellence of Emory’s undergraduate humanities programs, and The Rose Library is proud to be a part of educating scholars and leaders Read More …

A ‘Lost Giant’: William Melvin Kelley Jr. & His Zany Realist Style

Annika Schadewaldt is a Ph.D. candidate in American literature with a focus on post-45 novels at Leipzig University, Germany. She is a 2023 Rose Library Short-Term Research Fellow.  I came to the Rose library to be able to look at the papers of William Melvin Kelley, Jr., a Black postwar author who has only recently Read More …