The Spelman Messenger was established in 1885, four years after the founding of Spelman College. It featured articles written by faculty, students, and staff, on a variety of topics alumnae news, prominent visitors to campus, health and wellness, history, and religion and often included photographs and local business advertisements. The Spelman Messenger is still currently being published in print and online, and serves as the official magazine of Spelman College and the alumnae.
Founded in 1980, the Spelman College Honors Program, named for scholar-teacher Ethel Waddell Githii, is interdisciplinary in design recognizing the diversity of our faculty expertise and student creative scholarship. The Githii Honors Program creates original programming and targeted supports for our member students, and collaborates with academic departments and programs to provide a rich array of scholarly and creative venues. These include our annual reading and lecture series, special programs and workshops for the broader campus and the Atlanta community, and cultural engagements on and beyond the campus. The Program spotlights intellectual leadership as a habit of mind and a quality of the ethical citizen.
Continuum highlights research that affects black women and black womens contributions to research. As an interdisciplinary journal, Continuum encourages readers to think critically about the intersection between scholarship and black womens experiences across the diaspora. The publication prepares undergraduate students for graduate studies by encouraging them to develop a passion for research. We are a platform for students around the world to use scholarship to initiate dialogue across disciplines and bring research to the forefront of the collegiate experience.
This publication series highlights selected scholarly and research contributions of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) community. The bibliographies, which are compiled by the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, illustrate the richness of faculty contributions within each institution and across the AUC community.
The Spelman Spotlight was the name of the student newspaper from 1956 to 2014 (The paper is now known as the Blueprint). The Spotlight featured articles primarily written by Spelman students, and focused on campus events, national and international news issues, editorials, creative writing, and opinion pieces.
The Spelman Independent Scholars is a two-semester independent, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational learning experience open to students across all majors, the goal of SIS is to enhance students critical writing and thinking skills. It also allows students the opportunity to share research and grow in griot knowledge. In addition to learning sessions with the SIS faculty mentor, students are exposed to lectures by guest scholars including gerontologists, oral historians, museum curators, and physician-researchers. Through one on one independent student relationships and class seminars, the unique yearlong program allows and entrusts students to solicit, understand and archive stories of African-American women elders. A global component of SIS has included oral history research in Accra, Ghana; Benin, West Africa; and Kingston, Jamaica.
This collection contains over 1100 images dating from 1887 to the present and document Spelmans presidents, commencement ceremonies, and campus building and grounds. Also featured are images from Spelmans Department of Drama and Dance from the 1930s to the present.
This page contains the open access scholarship of the faculty of Spelman College. Open access is the ability to distribute and access scholarly research without restriction.
First published in October 1924, The Campus Mirror was a monthly newspaper managed and edited by the students of Spelman College. The paper featured editorials, campus news, events, speeches, local advertisements, and photographs of classes and organizations. In addition to its news coverage, literary works by students and advice for interviews or studying could be found in the Mirror's pages. A special commencement issue was published at the end of each academic year. These issues included photographs and covered the graduating and incoming classes. The newspaper's final issue circulated in May 1950 after 26 years of covering campus life.
Through their own voices and images, this Passing It Forward project links the personal stories of LGBTQ+ elders of color --those around 50 years old and above-- to the political and social movements they are connected to. The collection consists of 150 interviews with LGBTQ+ elders of color, conducted by interviewers of around college age. These intergenerational conversations allow this growing and important population to reflect on their life and wisdom. By doing so, this project provides a venue to allow these individuals to educate and inspire.
The Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project is a collaboration between Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, Princeton University, and Spelman College. The project documents stories of people who have been working to preserve Black and Indigenous seed and foodways.
