Greetings Colleagues, See messaging below from HBCU Library Alliance Board Chair Monika Rhue regarding the Inez Moore Parker Fellowship Program. Mrs. Monika Rhue, Director of Library Services, and Brandon Lunsford, University Archivist, are pleased to announce Dr. Shanna Benjamin as the inaugural Inez Moore Parker Fellow. Dr. Shanna Benjamin was awarded a national fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and will be a resident at the Inez Moore Parker Archives and Research Center starting in September 2019. Dr. Benjamin taught English at Johnson C. Smith University and is working on a book chronicling Nellie Y. McKay. McKay was a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, the groundbreaking anthology that established a tradition of black writing. The Inez Moore Parker Fellowship will provide a space for the Fellows to do research and access the archives and library resources. The Fellows will host a series of discussions in the library that weave critical thinking into undergraduate research at JCSU, assist JCSU's faculty in using and infusing archives resources in the classroom and their personal research, assist the library in developing an archival training program, and assist in selecting the next Fellow. The maximum term of the Inez Moore Parker Fellowship is two years and is open to all JCSU faculty, staff, scholars and historians. More about the Inez Moore Parker Fellowship program is attached to this email. Monika Rhue (Nooma) Leading Change Institute 2019 Class HBCU Library Alliance Board Chair Director of Library Services and Curation James B. Duke Memorial Library www.library.jcsu.edu<http://www.library.jcsu.edu/> Johnson C. Smith University mrhue@jcsu.edu<mailto:mrhue@jcsu.edu> 704-371-6730 [cid:9b82641c-f3e1-478f-9a0e-1fcf6e3b8bbf] ************************************************ Recruitment. Resources. Retention. Rigor. ********************************************