The History Graduate Student Association coordinates book sales and provides camaraderie and intellectual community to history graduate students and the larger UGA community. Universal associations for all graduate students campuswide include the UGA Graduate Student Association and the UGA Graduate and Professional Scholars.

Officers, 2011-2012

Ph.D. Representative and President: James (Trae) Welborn
MA Representative: McNeill Smart
Professional Development Workshop Coordinator: Kylie Horney
Speaker Series Coordinator: Laura Davis
Secretary-Treasurer: Leah Richier

Activities of the HGSA have included the following:

Annual Graduate Student Lecture Series

• 2010 - Dr. Michael Fellman, Simon Fraser University, Professor of History and Liberal Studies, "John Brown:Terrorism in a Slave Society"
• 2008 – Dr. Tera W. Hunter, Princeton University, Professor of History and African American Studies, “‘Until Death or Distance Do You Part’”: Marriage and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century”
• 2007 – Dr. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, "Guts, Greyhounds, and Gandhi: Pauli Murray's Civil Rights Movement"