Graduate students in the history department are invited to meet informally with our search candidates in modern East Asian history.

A former UGA history prof-- Temple U prof Bryant Simon appears at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library Jan 25 to discuss & sign copies of "Hamlet Fire".

Location:
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
441 Freedom Pkwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30307

This event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Hoffer will lead our structured writing group in which we will discuss various dilemmas, querks, and strategies pertaining to the art of writing. Grad Students Only.

Dr. Hoffer will lead our structured writing group where we will discuss various dilemmas, quirks, and strategies pertaining to the art of writing. Grad Students Only.

Join us as we celebrate the release of a new book by Daniel Rood: The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean. (Oxford U Press, May 2017)

Natasha Lightfoot, associate professor, Columbia University, will give a talk on the subject of her new book: Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015). Lightfoot secializes in slavery and emancipation studies, and black identities, politics, and cultures in the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History. Her  book focuses on black working class people's everyday forms of freedom in Antigua after emancipation.

Dr. Tore Olsson (UGA alumn) will offer a Professional Development Workshop on entering the job market in academia. 

He will spend a few minutes discussing how to give a job talk, interviewing for positions inside and outside academia, and what to expect. From there, he will open it up to the grad students for a Q&A. 

With so many of us entering the job market soon, this PDW is sure to be informative, pertinent, and instructive.

Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP when requested. 

The history graduate student association is having a booksale. Books of all genres - hardback and paperback, used and new offered at very low prices.

Wednesday and Thursday outdoors, behind LeConte Hall.

HGSA Coffee and Donuts social hour. For graduate students in the history program only.

HGSA Coffee and Donuts social in the conference room. For Graduate History students!