History Film Series: Sinners (2025)

The History Film Series presents Ryan Cooglers Sinners (2025). Sinners won two Golden Globes for Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and Best Original Score for Ludwig Göransson. A blend of horror, history, music and culture, the film is set 1932 in the Mississippi Delta. Starring Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. Co-stars include Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

Dirty History: Narusa Yamato (Stanford Univ.)

Featuring Narusa Yamato, Stanford University. "Selling 'Milky Gold' for the Empire: Dairy Cows, Cooperative Enterprise, and Settler Colonialism in Interwar Hokkaido."

Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism.

Dirty History workshops are attended mainly by faculty and graduate students from UGA and area universities. The authors whose work we discuss come from all over. Participants should come having read the papers in advance. 

Alumni Spotlight: Double Dawg Morgan Geiser Inspires Students Through History

Alumni Morgan Geiser

Morgan Geiser, a double dawg from the UGA Department of History, is inspiring the next generation of historians. 

Geiser (BS History, ‘20; MS History, ‘21) has spent the past five years teaching history to middle and high school students, and he is currently a teacher for Ignite Christian Academy, an online K-12 learning platform. 

“My experience at UGA was truly transformative,” he said. 

Student Spotlight: Priya Storey

Priya Storey pictured on the bridge above Sanford Stadium, UGA

A fourth-year History and English major, Priya Storey is applying for the final year of the Double Dawg program in graduate school to complete her master’s degree in history next year. She noted the numerous and diverse academic opportunities available at UGA are what first caught her attention when looking at prospective colleges. She’s taken advantage of many of those opportunities as a double major (History and English) and studying abroad.

The Inaugural Morrow Lecture: January 20, 2026

Matthew Delmont

The History Department is delighted to announce a new endowed lecture series in African American History and War & Society. The Morrow Lecture will be given annually on a rotating basis by distinguished scholars of African American History or the History of War and Society. The lecture series is endowed by John and Diane Morrow, two beloved professors who recently retired after years of dedicated scholarship, teaching, and service to the University of Georgia History Department.  Dr. John H. Morrow, Jr.

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