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Behind the Headlines Q&A (pt. 1): War in Ukraine

In a two-part mini-series, experts from UGA's history faculty will provide context and answer questions on the crises of the day: first Dr. Joseph Kellner on the war in Ukraine, then Dr. Kevin Jones on the major, ongoing protests in Iran. This is a free and public event. Refreshments will be served.


Book Talk: Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women

Robin M. Morris is associate professor of history at Agnes Scott College. She researches gender and the political realignment of Georgia after World War II. Her work has appeared in Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South. Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women is a statewide study of women's part in the history of conservatism, the New Right, and the Republican Party in the state of Georgia. Morris examines how the growth of…


Dirty History Workshop: Hiromi Mizuno

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Fertilizing the Green De/Revolution: Japan, the US, and Cold War Asia," with its author, Hiromi Mizuno, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty…


Dirty History Book Talk:The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights, Jo Guldi

Join us March 17. Jo Guldi, Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University, will be giving a talk about her new book, The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights (Yale University Press, 2022). This free and public event is presented by the Dirty History Workshop and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the UGA Humanities Festival. Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the…


Dirty History Workshop: Robert Ferguson

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Impulse and Consequence: The Commodity Credit Corporation and The Rise of Agribusiness in the Cotton South," with Robert Ferguson, PhD student, University of Georgia. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email…


Dirty History Workshop: Jeremy Zallen

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Saltwater Marronage: Blubbery Circuits of Freedom in the Age of Revolution," with its author, Jeremy Zallen, Associate Professor, Lafayette College. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty…


Dirty History Workshop: Shaw Bridges

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "'They perceived us before we did them': Pacific Whaling Grounds as Workscapes," with Shaw Bridges, PhD student, University of Georgia. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is…


LTTM: Why did the Nazis murder Capitaine Charles N’Tchoréré?

The Lunchtime Time Machine popular undergraduates series welcomes Dr. Timothy Cleaveland for this month's talk. Cleaveland specializes in the history of Islamic West Africa, and has done research in Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Morocco, France and Illinois. He is particularly interested in the history of slavery, race and gender in West Africa, as well as the trans-Saharan slave trade. The Saharan and North African elite…


Dirty History Workshop: Lara Vapnek

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "'The Extra Hazardous Business of Being a Baby': Infant Care and Feeding in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," with its author, Lara Vapnek, Professor, St. John's College. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email…


Gender and History Workshop

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