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Graduate Student Meet & Greet with Stan Deaton, with a Georgia Historical Society presentation

Interested in learning about career options outside the academy? Join Stan Deaton, UGA MA alum, to hear about his career in public history. He’s currently the senior historian at the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah, and the Emmy-winning writer and host of Today in Georgia History, jointly produced for TV and radio. He also serves as managing editor for the Georgia Historical Quarterly.  Dr. Deaton will give a talk, open to all (…


"What can you do with a history degree?" with UGA alum Stan Deaton (Georgia Historical Society)

Join us for a presentation by UGA history alum Stan Deaton, Senior Historian at the Georgia Historical Society. Dr. Deaton will give a talk on public history career pathways for graduate and undergraduate students. This is a free event. All majors and prospective students are welcome to attend. Pizza will be served. ................................ Stan Deaton is the Senior Historian and The Dr. Elaine B. Andrews Distinguished Historian at the…


Dr. Todd Little-Siebold, "The Lost Ancestors: Apples, History and DNA"

Join historian turned genetic detective Todd Little-Siebold for a talk on the use of traditional techniques of historical research alongside genomic profiling to historic mysteries about the introduction of European fruit crops to North America.  In Georgia the iconic peach became a central crop for native communities long before Europeans settled. Apples arrived in America apparently as early as the 1530s  Through…


UGA School of Law presents Law, Migration, and Decolonization, a Book Launch w/ Dr. Kalyani Ramnath

Dr. Ramnath, a University of Georgia Assistant Professor of History and lawyer who has a courtesy appointment at the Law School, will discuss her new book, Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962 (Stanford UP 2023). Joining her in conversation will be Diane Marie Amann, Regents’ Professor, Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International…


Graduate student seminar with Peter Wood

For graduate students in history. The event is now full.  Peter H. Wood, professor emeritus at Duke University, will be in town on Tuesday, March 19, and the History Department is organizing an informal graduate seminar with him at 10 AM that day for grad students interested in Black history, the history of slavery, and more generally historical writing.  As you may know, Peter is the author of the landmark book Black Majority,…


“God’s Little Daughters” and a Missionary Odyssey in Modern China

Join us for a presentation by Ji Li on Friday: "God's Little Daughters" and a Missionary Odyssey in Modern China.   Dr. Ji Li is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong and a 2023-24 joint visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Ricci Institute. She received her B.A. and M.A. at Peking University and her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the relationship between…


Oscar Hokeah: Cherokee Novelist, winner of this year’s PEN Hemingway first novel prize

Join us for a talk by Oscar Hokeah: Cherokee Novelist, winner of this year’s PEN Hemingway first novel prize for Calling for a Blanket Dance. Oscar Hokeah is the winner of the 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award, a recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship Award through IAIA, and a winner of the Native Writer Award through the Taos Summer Writers Conference. Hokeah has written for Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, World Literature Today, American…


Alaina E. Roberts: "Black Slavery, Native Nations, and the Path to Reconciliation"

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Alaina E. Roberts, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh: "Black Slavery, Native Nations, and the Path to Reconciliation". Building on her first book's examination of Black life in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations, Dr. Roberts will discuss her burgeoning examination of what it might look like to delineate and confront the legacies of slavery in these two nations. Alaina E. Roberts is an Associate…


Spring '24 On-line history course evaluations April 19-30

Spring 2024 students may submit on-line course evaluations for history classes Friday, April 19 through April 30, 2024. Student Login - https://webapps.franklin.uga.edu/evaluation/ Note: Tuesday, April 30 (Reading Day) is the last day to submit on-line course evaluations for history classes.


Black Women's Historical Wellness: Yoga, Tea, and Traditions of Collective Self-Care

In this presentation, Dr. Stephanie Evans (Professor, Georgia State University) will discuss the study of Black women’s narrative histories of health, healing, and wellness. Evans will explore what she calls #HistoricalWellness: Black women’s traditions of simultaneously practicing inner peace and working collectively to resist oppression. Specifically, she will answer the question, “How have Black women elders managed stress?” By illuminating…
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