Book by Prof. Shadrack Nasong'o Receives 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award

A book by Rhodes College international studies professor Dr. Shadrack Nasong'o has received the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. The prestigious honor reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed during the previous calendar year and chosen by editors of Choice, which is a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

Preserving History

Drawing from a range of projects, Rhodes students work to keep history alive through digital preservation and scholarship.

Generational Connections

In 1968, Michael Johnson at LeMoyne-Owen College asked students who marched in support of the striking Memphis sanitation workers to write about their experience. Today, Rhodes students are ensuring that these riveting slivers of history become available to the public.

The Vincent Astor Collection

Three repositories of periodicals and memorabilia belonging to Vincent Astor ’75, a longtime Memphis gay rights activist, are serving as ongoing resources for Rhodes students interested in LGBT issues, historical preservation, and public history. 

Suiting Up: Students Launch New Beekeeping Club

The decline of honey bee populations due to pesticide use and climate change has been the buzz for quite some time, so Eilidh Jenness ’17 and other Rhodes students have begun donning beekeeper suits and learning ways to help these “pollination superstars” thrive.