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Southern Historical Association announces C. Vann Woodward Award Winner

Athens, GA: The Southern Historical Association is pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize: Matthew C. Hulbert, author of “Guerrilla Memory: Irregular Recollections from the Civil War Borderlands” written under the direction of John Inscoe at the University of Georgia. The Woodward Award was established in 2000 and is given to recognize the best dissertation in Southern history defended in the previous…
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Recent alum wins dissertation prize

Matthew Hulbert's ('15) doctoral dissertation "Guerrilla Memory: Irregular Recollections from the Civil War Borderlands" has won the 2015 Lewis Eldon Atherton Prize from the State Historical Society of Missouri (awarded to the best dissertation in Missouri history or biography). Hulbert is the Assistant Editor of the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition,  and Special Projects Manager of The Civil War Monitor.  He…
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Doctoral alumn James Gigantino in Salon on-line magazine

James Gigantino (Ph.D. History, 2010, UGA) and author of a new book The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey 1775-1865, was recently quoted in Salon, an on-line magazine, in yesterday's article "Secret history of a northern slave state: How slavery was written into New Jersey’s DNA" by Robert Hennelly.
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Congratulations to our alumni, members of UGA's 40 Under 40 Class of 2015!

Each year, the UGA Alumni Association recognizes 40 of the university's most outstanding graduates under the age of 40. Nearly 500 young professionals were nominated for this distinction this year. These individuals have achieved a high level of achievement  in their careers while maintaining a strong relationship with UGA. David Lasseter (UGA history '02) is the Director of Government Relations, United Technologies Corporation Wash. D.C.…
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Olsson wins two dissertation awards

Tore Olsson, recent Ph.D., won two dissertation prizes this week: the 2014 Gilbert C. Fite Award for Best Dissertation from the Agricultural History Society and the Oxford University Press USA Dissertation Prize in International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
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