SCUA Student Showcase Proves a Great Success
On Friday, April 10, University Archivist Erin Lawrimore hosted “Spartans in the Stacks,” a SCUA Student Showcase in Hodges Reading Room. The Showcase spotlighted students’ work accomplished during their time working in the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives this year. These graduate and undergraduate students, working in all capacities of the department, had the opportunity to create individual exhibits that featured their special projects or archival items of particular interest to them. It was attended by their professors, friends, and library staff.
The Hodges Reading room exhibit cases are currently featuring a collection of exhibits created by student workers and Hodges Fellows.
Hodges Research Fellow Cecil Barlow is Featured in UNCG Magazine
Recent UNCG graduate Cecil Barlow, Hodges Research Fellow, was featured in UNCG Magazine. In this article, Barlow is interviewed about his time in the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). Although he was a classical studies major, Barlow felt the Fellowship offered an opportunity to research topics outside of his usual period of study. Specifically, he mentions the new skills that he learned by working with both physical and digital archival material.
Read the full article here: https://magazine.uncg.edu/feature/hodges-fellowship-makes-life-changing-research-possible/
ILRS Department Capstone Student Callie Plemmons Discusses Her Experience in SCUA
During the spring semester of 2026, I was able to have my capstone experience at SCUA. This has been such a privilege to work with archivists and have hands-on experience in the field through their guidance. For my capstone, I processed the Katherine M. Dunlap Collection. This consisted of 10 boxes of material that was organized by the trips she took over the course of her life. From this material, a digital exhibit was created that highlights one of the first trips taken out of the country when she was around eighteen years old, titled A Girl Scout Trip to Switzerland. This exhibit includes various types of materials, such as newspaper clippings, letters, postcards, and my personal favorite, photographs. Not only is the exhibit documentation of her trip to Switzerland, but it also emphasizes the impact of the opportunities she was able to have through the Girl Scouts of the USA, such as meeting other scouts and guides from around the world.
Here is the finding aid Plemmons created: https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/1565
BFA Student Elissa Ukhueligbe Completes an Independent Study in SCUA
Elissa Ukhueligbe, a Bachelor in Fine Arts student who worked with Erin Lawrimore and Kathelene Smith this past semester on independent study projects, has been awarded a summer residency at the Greensboro Project Space. The Student Residency Program – known as Summer Studios: Arts on Site—is an initiative designed for UNCG undergraduate student artists to experiment, take creative risks, and freely develop their artistic voices outside the traditional classroom. https://www.greensboroprojectspace.com/student-residency-program
Student Exhibit: “The Many Sides of Minerva: Student Life Beyond the Classroom”
“The Many Sides of Minerva: Student Life Beyond the Classroom” is a current exhibit on the second floor of Jackson Library that explores the history of student organizations at UNCG. Humanities at Work interns AJ Bly, Peittr Codr, and Rylie Millea curated the exhibit. Organizations featured in the exhibit range from the campus literary societies of the 1900s to the Kaleidoscope mime troupe of the 1970s.
2026-2027 Fellows:
- Rylie is a rising senior who is majoring in English with minors in Creative Writing, Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and History. She has been a Peer Academic Mentor at UNCG since Fall 2024, and during the 2025-2026 academic year, she interned in SCUA as part of the Humanities at Work program.
- CJ is also an English major entering her senior year. She has minors in American Sign Language and Media Studies. CJ is a mentor in the Lloyd International Honors College, a Class of ‘55 Scholar, and a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the national English honors society. She served as a Humanities at Work intern at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in 2025-2026.
We look forward to working with Rylie and CJ in the Fall!
Three More Student-Curated Exhibits
First, in the Spartan Study Space on the second floor of Jackson Library, you will find “Highlighting the Unknown: Notable People and Places in the History of UNCG.” This series of posters was created by 2025-2026 Humanities at Work interns AJ Bly, Peittr Codr, Rylie Millea, and Mriya Ralda. You can learn more about the history of campus organizations like the WUAG radio station and the Science Fiction Fantasy Federation, campus sites like Peabody Park and the Students’ Building, and campus staff, faculty, and alumni like Ezekiel Robinson, Herman Middleton, and Emmylou Harris.
The second student-curated exhibit in Jackson Library is in the first-floor Jackson Library lobby. “PRIDE! of the Community: Stories of Community, Creativity, and Resilience” was curated by 2025-2026 SCUA GA Jordan Fridley and Hodges Fellow Emma Albrecht (both UNCG LIS graduate students). You can see some materials from the PRIDE! of the Community digitization project and from SCUA, and you can learn more about OUT at the Movies, White Rabbit Books, and drag in Greensboro.
Finally, if you happen to visit the Greensboro History Museum before the end of August 2026, please be sure to check out another student-curated exhibit at the top of the stairs on the second floor. “Dare to Be Different: Women’s Collegiate Sports in the 1970s” was curated by Emma Albrecht. The material in the exhibit was sourced from the Victoria “Vicki” Simmons Papers, a manuscripts collection that Emma processed as part of her Hodges Fellowship project. You can see the full finding aid that Emma created here: https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/1559.
Former SCUA Graduate Assistant writes blog post for National Council of Public History
Former SCUA Graduate Assistant Susan Huynh wrote the post “Carving space for AAPI public historians” for the National Council of Public History blog: https://ncph.org/history-at-work/carving-space-for-aapi-public-historians