Congratulations to our 2023-2034 Travel Grant Recipients
We are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2023-2024 travel grants. The Rubenstein Library's research centers annually award grants to students, scholars, and independent researchers through a competitive application process. Bingham Center staff members work with recipients of three of the Rubenstein Library's research travel grant programs. The full listing of all grant recipients is posted on The Devil's Tale blog.
Mary Lily Research Grants
- Ola Aboukhsaiwan, Ph.D. candidate, London School of Economics and Political Science, “Surviving Abortion: Clinics, Competition, and Connections.”
- Sophie Abramowitz, Independent Researcher, “Rosetta Records Creative Reissue Project.
- Anne Gray Fischer, Faculty, University of Texas at Dallas, “Women Killers: Murder in the Era of Feminist Liberation.”
- Wendy Rouse, Faculty, San Jose State University, “The Feminist Self-Defense Movement in the Era of Women’s Liberation.”
- Rachel Tang, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University; Department of History of Art and Architecture, “Lessons in Repair: History, Materials, and Processes of Pedagogy in American Art.”
- Tessel Veneboer, Ph.D. candidate, Ghent University, “Negativity, sexuality, and formal innovation Kathy Acker’s literary experiments.”
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Research Travel Grants
- Matilde Manara, Postdoctoral Fellow, Collège de France, “Proustmania! Reading, writing, sewing Proust today.”
- Christina Olivares, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English Education, Teachers College at Columbia University, “Reparative Gestures/Queering Education: Eve Kosofsky Sedwick’s pedagogical practices and James Sears’ research in adolescent education.”
- Evan Pavka, Faculty, Department of Art & Art History, Wayne State University, “Reconstructing ‘Queer Space’.”
Harry H. Harkins T’73 Travel Grants for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
- Courtney Block, Faculty, Indiana University Southeast Library, “Rhea White & Margaret Anderson Letters.” Read more about Rhea and Marg's connection with the Parapsychology Lab at Duke in the 1950s in this blog post by Courtney Block.
- Adam Kocurek, Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center, “Academic Closets and Labor Trials: LGBTQ+ Academics and Activism in the Industry from 1960-Present.”
- Suisui (Sway) Wang, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, “Answering the Call(s): Sexual Politics of Hotlines and Technopolitics of Sexuality.”
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Exhibit: June 10, 2023 – December 3, 2023The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery, Rubenstein Library
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Mandy Carter, Scientist of Activism
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This exhibit honors the decades-long work of Mandy Carter, a Durham, NC-based Black lesbian feminist activist who has been central in the struggle for social justice, especially nonviolent resistance, Black freedom movements, and queer liberation.
Opening Event: Tuesday, June 13, 2023
4:30-5:15 p.m.: Exhibit viewing and reception (Chappell Family Gallery, Rubenstein Library)
5:15-6:30 p.m.: Formal program with Mandy Carter (Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library room 153)
Additional programming will be planned for the fall semester. This exhibit includes materials from a number of Rubenstein Library collections including the Mandy Carter Papers. As part of an initiative to use fonts designed by Black artists, for the Mandy Carter exhibit we used a font designed by Tre' Seals of Vocal Type. The exhibit design was created by a Durham, NC-based, Black-owned firm, Kompleks Creative.
Banner Image: "Mandy Carter: Scientist of Activism." Designed by Kompleks Creative and Vocal Type.
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"Mean Mothers: Independent Women's Blues, vol. 1"
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Rosetta Reitz's Musical Archive of Care: On Exhibit
This exhibition explores the work of Rosetta Reitz through materials from her collection. Rosetta Reitz was a 20th-century feminist writer, business owner, and record and concert producer. After a writing career and owning a bookstore, Reitz started Rosetta Records in 1979, the first and only record label specializing in Black women’s jazz and blues music, dedicated to rereleasing previously underappreciated and out of print recordings. On display April 4 – October 1, 2023, in the Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery.
Related event:- The Rosetta Circle inaugural performance was held April 21, 2023, at the Rubenstein Arts Center. Envisioned by Raleigh-based musician, Tift Merritt, along with Adia Victoria, Rissi Palmer, Shirlette Ammons, Shana Tucker, The Rosetta Circle continues the spirit of Rosetta’s work and honors the unsung foremothers of jazz.
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Cover of Silko's first book, Laguna Woman (1974)
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Cleage, Pearl. Mad at Miles: A Blackwoman's Guide to Truth. Southfield, MI: The Cleage Group, 1990. First edition. The playwright/novelist's response to male violence against women and Shahrazad Ali's book The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Black Woman.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Laguna Woman. Greenfield Centre, New York: The Greenfield Review Press, 1974. First edition of the author’s first book. Silko' focuses on the importance of native traditions and community when faced with the alienation of existing in a white society. Illustrated by Silko and painter, illustrator, and writer, Aaron Yava.
Willard, Emma. A Series of Maps to Willard's History of the United States, or, Republic of America. New York: White, Gallaher & White, 1829. 12 engraved maps. The first historical atlas of the United States, produced by the first women map maker in America, pioneering educator Emma Willard.
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Overall at the Rubenstein Library, we saw our instruction numbers approach pre-pandemic levels as more instructors and students returned to hands-on work with diverse primary sources.
- Art of the Comic Book and Zines
- Book Publishing and Marketing
- Faith and Feminism
- Feminist Art
- Foundations of Feminist Theory
- Gender and Everyday Life
- Gender and Media
- Gender in the Economy
- Girl Scouts Book Arts Badge Workshop
- UNC SILS: Archival Appraisal
- Women at Work
- Writing 101: Dolly Parton for President?
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June is Pride Month, celebrating LGBTQ liberation. This banner is from a newsletter about plans for the 1990 Pride Celebration in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. From the Mandy Carter Papers.
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