Graduate

Nationally Touring Exhibit Visits Russell Library

Please join us for information on a new UGA service organization, "friends of Gospel Pilgrim. Friends of Gospel Pilgrim is committed to service work to help restore and cleanup local historical African American cemeteries. The university community is invited to attend. All majors, students, staff and faculty are welcome.

PIZZA will be served!
 

Friends of Gospel Pilgrim, a UGA student service organization, is hosting a service day at Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery this Saturday, August 26th, from 9-12. Gospel Pilgrim is a historic African American cemetery in Athens in need of care and maintenance. Please come on out and help us preserve this piece of Athens' history!

For more information about the service day and to let us know you are coming please check out our FaceBook event.

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!

Please join us for a Gallery Talk In Celebration of the 2017 Lee Roy B. Giles Encouragement Award Winners.

.  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.