This month, the History department recognizes  our Spring 2023 Graduate Colloquium in Public History students for our DEI Spotlight feature.

Please join us for a history talk by Dr. Christina Snyder, "Building UGA: Convict Labor at Sanford Stadium and Beyond". Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era at The Pennsylvania State University and a UGA alum (AB 2001). She is an historian of colonialism, race, and slavery, with a focus on North America from the pre-contact era through the late nineteenth century.

Free and open to the public. Pizza will be served. This is an FYO event.

Congratulations to the many graduate students who received annual awards at our recognition ceremony in April at the UGA Founders Memorial Garden. Graduating students were also recognized, including: Master's students Sachen Pillay and Christine Combs, and Ph.D. candidate Matthew O'Neal, graduating May 11.

Andrew Denson (History, Western Carolina University), author of Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest Over Southern Memory will be at UGA to share his research on Thursday, April 20 at 2:30 pm in 265 Park Hall. Come hear Dr. Denson's rich research on memorialization.

Sponsored by UGA's Institute of Native American Studies.

Summer Short Session I Drop Add June 8-9.

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A legendary historian presaged the problems now plaguing the field

By James C. Cobb, April 3, 2023

Jim Cobb, Professor Emeritus, has a timely op-ed in the Washington Post on the state of the historical profession.  It's inspired by his new book on the life and work of historian C. Vann Woodward. 

Akela Reason, associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, will give a gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibition “Object Lessons in American Art.” Her talk will expand on the exhibition through the lens of her expertise in American visual and material culture. Dr. Reason teaches courses in material culture, urban history, museum studies and public history, and she is the director of UGA’s Interdisciplinary Certificate in Museum Studies.

The History at Work series and Professional Development Workshop present a career talk with Simon Taylor.

Graduate students - please RSVP to Dr. Roth Hiscoord@uga.edu for a Zoom link or check your email for the note from Dr. Roth.