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History students volunteered for service projects this year cleaning and restoring the grounds at local historic African American cemeteries.
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AB History, AB Religion, MA History student Isabel Mann works hard at her courses, and harder in the community...
was founded at UGA by historians Claudio Saunt and Stephen Berry in the belief that new technologies make possible a new kind of humanities research
Meet your librarians, learn about key resources, and tour the buildings. Representatives from various Libraries’ departments and collections will be available to answer questions and demonstrate research tools including the GIL catalog, GALILEO system of research databases, and the citation management tools EndNote and RefWorks.
There will be door prizes and light refreshments!
Two locations:
With an introduction by Jay Driskell, author of Hard Work: A History of Sanitation and the Teamsters.
Part of the “Dirty Work” conference (www.southernlaborstudies.org), which is funded by the UGA Department of History, the Provost, the Vice President for Research, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Southern Historical Association, the Southern Labor Archives, and the University of Georgia Press.
Free and open to the public.
Students in Prof. Soper's crime and punishment class are setting up their own pop-up exhibit, on display at the Russell Special Collections Building, Room 285, on Friday, April 27 from 1 to 2:30. The title of the exhibit is "Unlocking Georgia: Law, Crime, and Punishment." Stop by and see the great items the students have found in our special collections!
Hunter Hellwig will defend his Master's thesis entitled, "Optimism Without Limit: Intellectual Life in the American Socialist Movement, 1895-1912" on Wednesday morning. The major professor is Dr. John Short. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
Lauren Titley will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "'Property in Humans': Slaves as meubles and Inherent Difficulties" on Thursday morning. The major professor is Dr. Jennifer Palmer. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
Student on-line history course evaluations are available April 16 - 26 at eval.franklin.uga.edu. Evaluations may be submitted during this time prior to the first day of final exams, at which time submissions will be closed. This is for history courses taught by the department of history. Students registered in large survey classes that have breakout discussion groups will have two evaluations to submit for such a class - one for the instructor and one for the teaching assistant.
Isabel Mann will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "Benedictine Missionaries and the Intersection of Religion and Race on Skidaway Island, Georgia " on Thursday afternoon. The major professor is Dr. Diane Batts Morrow. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
Zachary Allen will defend his Master's thesis entitled, "The Freedmen's Bureau 1865: The Great Failure of Labor Contracts and Fixed Wage Rates" on Thursday afternoon. The major professor is Dr. John Inscoe. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
Laura Nelson will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "A 'Miserable Creature' or 'Remarkable Man': Wilkes Flagg and the Ambiguity of Race in Nineteenth-Century Middle Georgia" on Tuesday morning. The major professor is Dr. Jennifer Palmer. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
It's Graduate Student Appreciation Week! If you are a graduate studnet in history at UGA stop by on your way to class for a slice--we'll have pizza for you today!
