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PhD Comprehensive Examination: Steven Krug

Steven Krug will take oral comprehensive examinations with his doctoral advisory committee. Members of the university community are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in history by March 27, to ensure adequate seating. The Major Professor is Dr. Stephen Mihm.


UGA Spring 2024 Master's and Specialist Student Commencement


Stemming the Tide: Environmental History and the Future of the Georgia Coast

Can History Save the Georgia Coast? Join us as a coterie of UGA history majors presents the results of their senior seminar research into the environmental histories of the Georgia coast. Their aim is not only to explore coastal history per se, but to look for a “usable past” as we face the future. What environmental challenges have plagued the coast in the past, and how did people deal with them? Did they deal with them successfully? Who…


UGA’s John Drake and Claudio Saunt to deliver 2022 Charter Lecture

Posted from UGA Columns April 2022 2022 Charter Lecture Series John Drake and Claudio Saunt 2021-2022 Regents' Professors Two leading scholars at the University of Georgia will discuss their individual research programs and their collaboration at the intersection of history and infectious disease during the 2022 Charter Lecture. John Drake, Distinguished Research Professor in the Odum School of Ecology and founding director of the Center for the…


M.A. Thesis Defense: Theodora Light

Theodora Hamilton Huszagh Light will defend her M.A. thesis, "Forging Refuge between Shatter Zones: The Tocobaga Maroons of the Wacissa," in conference with her graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. James F. Brooks. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.


History Graduate Student Annual Awards and Dinner (event is full)

The History Department will hold our annual departmental award ceremony and reception for history graduate students, staff and faculty at the Founders Memorial Garden on the University of Georgia's North Campus. You are welcome to bring a guest.  Dinner and awards will be served in the garden main building.  By invitation. This event is now full. Sorry, we cannot exceed capacity due to fire regulations.  


History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) Spring Event

The HGSA is having an annual spring event just for history graduate students with their families! BBQ and tie dye at Memorial Park. Shirts, food, and beverages provided. We'll be at Picnic Shelter 2, between the Pond and playground. 293 Gran Ellen Drive, ACC Transit Bus Route 14 RSVP: Ariana Persico


Film Screening and Discussion: "Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer"

A film screening and discussion on Russia’s authoritarian turn. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer is a 2013 Russian-British documentary film by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin. The film follows the court cases on the Russian feminist/anti-Putinist punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot. Directed by Lerner and Pozdorovkin, the film featured publicly available footage of the court proceedings and interviews with the families of the band members, but no…


M.A. Thesis Defense: Rolando J. Rodriguez

Rolando Rodriguez will defend his M.A. thesis, "'It tends to set the price of all other things': The Political Economy of Manioc in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Bahia," in conference with his graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Cassia Roth. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.


M.A. Thesis Defense: Stephanie Holterman

Stephanie Holterman will defend her M.A. thesis, "Conquering the Quorum: How Thomas B. Reed Transformed Congressional Procedure in the House of Representatives," in conference with her graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Scott Nelson. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.
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