Graduate

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!

History department reception and awards for our MA and PhD students in history. Our history graduate students, faculty, staff and their families are invited to our annual barbeque dinner and awards.

The University of Georgia Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will host our 8th Annual NAACP Image Awards Ceremony on Thursday April 12th, 2018 at 7:00 PM in the Memorial Ballroom located in Memorial Hall. This year’s theme is: “20 Years of Black Excellence”.  We will recognize the outstanding achievements and contributions of our students, faculty, staff, and community members who promote social justice locally and abroad and advance the mission of the NAACP. 

Can the American Congress be ethical in an age of intense partisan warfare? Dr. Julian Zelizer, Princeton University professor and CNN political analyst, will take up the topic of ethics in Congress in a lecture hosted on Thursday, April 5 at 4:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Special Collections Building. We also invite UGA students to join us for a breakfast recap with our guest speaker the following morning (April 6) at 9:00 a.m.

Why Walden pond might appear more virtual and a Pacific island more augmented can be better understood by returning to the archives of two print-age Pacific expeditions by James Cook and George Macartney. Both men ostensibly failed in their imperial tasks, and yet the printed journals and engravings of the expeditions, including the French wallpaper that Reihana draws upon, became fundamental to new conceptions of nature and empire in the late eighteenth century.

Katherine Fialka will defend her doctoral dissertation, "Textual Healing: Female Readers, Self-Writing, And Sensibility In The American South, 1840-1900" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Stephen Berry. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.

Andrew Fialka will defend his doctoral dissertation, "Of Methods and Madness: A Spatial History Approach to the Civil War's Guerrilla Violence " in the Main Library Administrative Conference Room (2nd Floor). The Major Professor is Dr. Stephen Berry. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.

Emma Rountree will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "The Inheritance of Blood First": Three White Women’s Takes on Miscegenation and the "Tragic Mulatta" on Wednesday morning. The major professor is Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Gabriell Johnson-Cameron will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "We Don't Have Racism Up Here" The Social Influence of the Presence and Advertisement of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Scotland" on Wednesday 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.