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We already knew our Master's history student Kathryn Veale is amazing. Read the entire article about Kathryn on the UGA web site.
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History students volunteered for service projects this year cleaning and restoring the grounds at local historic African American cemeteries.
Derek Bentley will defend his doctoral dissertation, "Democratic Openings: Organized Business, Conservative Protest, and Political-Economic Transformation in Mexico, 1970-1986" in Rm. 112, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Institute, 290 S. Hull Street. The Major Professor is Dr. Pamela Voekel. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.
The history department's new graduate student orientation meeting is REQUIRED for all new graduate students in history. Box lunch will be provided.
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM.
8:30 AM -12:00 PM. All new graduate teaching and laboratory assistants who will have instructional responsibilities during 2017-2018 are required to attend this orientation as per University TA Policy.
9:00 Am - 12:00 PM. REQUIRED for all new graduate students in history. Complete information about the Orientation and Information Fair is on the Graduate School website . Please email Judy Milton, jmilton@uga.edu, with any questions.
Dr. Steve Soper’s HIST 3775 students will end the term with a pop-up exhibit at the Russell special collections building, on the subject of "Crime and Punishment in Georgia: 20th-Century Prisons and Convict Life." Among the items that will be on display are photographs of convict laborers beginning construction of Sanford Stadium in the 1920s and a crocheted replica of a prison cell made by an inmate on death row in the 1990s.
Take a break from finals to stop by this intriguing and well-done student exhibit!
1 - 3 pm Wednesday
Free Admission
Looking for a way to decompress after the last day of classes and before exams - come hang out, eat pizza, and talk about the first World War!
. Following the ceremony we will be taking a curator tour of the exhibition "Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection."
This year history doctoral student James Wall has been selected as the graduate student winner of the Lee Roy B. Giles Encouragement Award.
Please join us and support Kaylynn Washnock, a doctoral candidate in history at UGA, chosen as a finalist to compete in the university-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition at Ciné, downtown Athens, GA.
Bryant Barnes will defend his M.A. thesis, "The Alleged Attempt to Lynch H. Seb. Doyle, The "Rhetoric of Corruption, and Disfranchisement"" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Scott Nelson. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.
Please join us for a lecture and book signing event with Robert A. Pratt, (UGA Professor of history), for a presentation of his newest book Selma’s Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality.
