by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers. This is the sixth and final post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. One of the main things that I have learned while working in archiving is: “It Depends”. I am usually scanning other finding aids on Emory’s 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 …
By Jennifer Gunter King, drawing heavily on writing by Dr. Pellom McDaniels (1968-2020) In honor of Juneteenth and drawing from its extensive African American archives, the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is thrilled to announce the public release of “Into the Archives: Small Steps – C.T. Vivian, Upward Bound and the Read More …
By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library Last summer, the National Archives of the United Kingdom tweeted: “We only know that it’s the hottest day on record because of archival records. Let that fact sink in.” While it was meant to be a bit humorous, it stuck with me. We only know that an Read More …
By Jennifer Gunter King, Director of Rose Library The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library seeks nominations and applications for our next Curator of African American Collections and Curator for Literature and Poetry Collections positions. If you envision building library collections that advance research and public interests as part of a dynamic research Read More …
by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers. This is the fifth post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. Today I accomplished something I had desired to do for a while: I managed to get the entirety of Lucinda’s collection onto one floor. To work on 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 …
by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers. This is the third post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. Well, I quickly filled up my once spacious cubicle. It was decided that I would begin by accessioning the first 18 boxes. This was helpful in terms Read More …
