People, Department of History at the University of Georgia

The University of Georgia, Department of History

Early America
The University of Georgia History Department is one of the best places in the country to study early American history at both the M.A. and the Ph.D. levels. Its prize-winning historians offer courses each semester in the field; their broad topical and chronological range covers African-American, agrarian, cultural, economic, intellectual, legal, religious, and ethno-history. The University of Georgia's libraries have first-rate research collections, including Early American imprints and a range of early American newspapers. Financial assistance is available. Faculty in the department host the Georgia Workshop in Early American History and Culture.
Faculty
Hoffer, Peter C. Professor and Distinguished Research Professor	Early American history and legal history	Office: 317 LeConte Hours: T/R 1:00-2:00pm	pchoffer@uga.edu (706) 542-2519
Kulikoff, Allan Professor and Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities	Southern History, Early American History, agrarian history, history of capitalism	Office: 224 LeConte Hours: T/R 1:30-2:45pm & by appt	kulikoff@uga.edu (706) 542-2517
Lawton, Christopher Part-Time Instructor	Antebellum South; regionalisms; cultural and intellectual history	Office: 234 LeConte	crlawton@uga.edu (706) 542-2024
Mihm, Stephen Associate Professor	Economic, cultural, and intellectual history of 18th- and 19th-century America	Office: 302 LeConte Hours: T, R 8-9am	mihm@uga.edu (706) 542-2469
Saunt, Claudio Professor and Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and and Associate Director, Institute of Native American Studies and Co-Director, Center for Virtual History	Early and Native American history	Office: 308 LeConte Hours: T - 9:15-9:45am	csaunt@uga.edu (706) 542-2518
Winship, Michael P. Professor and E. Merton Coulter Chair	Early modern British North American and British religious history	Office: 329 LeConte Hours: MW - 2:30-3:30pm	mwinship@uga.edu (706) 542-2531
Graduate Students
Alexander, Angela Graduate Student	Antebellum American political, cultural, and intellectual history	Office: 103 LeConte	amalex@uga.edu
Haynes, Joshua Graduate Teaching Assistant	18th c. southeastern Indians; theft and violence on the Creek-Georgia frontier, 1773-1812	Office: 332 LeConte	jhaynes@uga.edu
Horney, Kylie A. Graduate Teaching Assistant	Colonial and Revolutionary America	Office: 310 LeConte	kahorney@uga.edu
Long, Di (Julia) Graduate Student	Early American History, Women's History, Gender History	Office: 114 LeConte Hours: By appointment	longdi@uga.edu
Marsh, Christopher Graduate Student	Early America	Office: 112 LeConte	cmarsh@uga.edu
Owen, James Graduate Student	Southern, environmental, and Native American history	Office: 122 LeConte	jaowen@uga.edu
Poister, Robert Graduate Student	Antebellum and Civil War U.S. South; 19th-Century Latin America and Caribbean	Office: 109 LeConte Hall Hours: M, 10-11am and by appointment	rpoister@uga.edu
Taylor, Michael Graduate Student	Early American Political History	Office: 134 LeConte	taylormh@uga.edu
Windisch, Kurt Graduate Student	Native American, military	Office: 103 LeConte Hours: T, R 1:15-1:45	windisch@uga.edu
Young, Kevin Graduate Teaching Assistant	U.S. South	Office: 118 LeConte Hours: By appt.	revision@uga.edu