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Announcement | Justin Uhr, Senior Library Technologist-Digital Resources Projects Assistant
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Justin Uhr has joined the Library’s Digital Technologies team as a Digital Resources Projects Assistant. His focus is primarily on data cleaning, wrangling, and assessment.
Prior to joining Brown, Justin spent over a year as a stay-at-home parent and worked as a Support Analyst for Deloitte and as a Sustainability Coordinator for YR&G, an architectural consulting firm in New York City. He obtained a Master of Architecture degree from Parsons School of Design and a B.A. in Architectural History and Theory from Columbia University.
Justin and his wife moved to Providence in 2016 where they are raising a toddler and a four month old baby. In a time before small children, Justin enjoyed many hobbies including tabletop gaming and craft beer.
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Library Closing at Noon on January 17
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The following Brown University Libraries will close at 12 p.m. on Friday, January 17, 2020 to allow Library staff to attend our annual winter celebration:
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
- John Hay Library
- Sciences Library (Friedman Study Center will remain open)
- Library Collections Annex
Orwig Music Library will remain open.
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Announcement | Hortense J. Spillers Papers Open for Research
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The Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive and the John Hay Library are proud to announce that the Hortense J. Spillers papers are open for research.
Spillers is an American literary critic, Black feminist scholar, and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in English at Vanderbilt University. Her research addresses literary criticism, race and gender; linguistics; the African diaspora; Black culture; and sexuality. She is best known for her 1987 article, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” one of the most cited essays in African-American literary studies today.
The Hortense J. Spillers papers include handwritten diaries and journals on topics ranging from critical race theory and Moby Dick to the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Spillers’ first trip abroad in 1968. The collection also includes personal and professional correspondence with scholars such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Gayatri Spivak; and drafts of her talks, articles, and books, including “Isom,” “Conjuring,” and “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.” Materials in this collection date from 1966 to 1995.
Spillers contributed her papers to the Feminist Theory Archive in the name of the Black Feminist Theory Project, established by the Pembroke Center in 2016.
For information on how to access these collections, please contact the Pembroke Center Archivist at pembroke_archives@brown.edu.