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Book Event with Joseph Kellner

Save the date for a book event with Dr. Joseph Kellner. Details to be announced. The university community is welcome. Refreshments.


History Behind the Headlines- The War in Iran: How Did We Get Here?

Join us as our faculty provide a historical context on current crises in the news and answer questions on the history of events. History Behind the Headlines is not an academic debate or political event, but a talk of historical events which often help inform our understanding of todays news. "History Behind the Headlines- The War in Iran: How Did We Get Here?” Free and open to the public. An FYO event. Note: if all seats fill, the event will be…


UGA Spring 2026 on-line course evaluations April 14 - 28

Effective for spring 2026 courses, UGA will implement a new centralized platform for end-of-term course evaluations. Information about the system is available on the Office of the Registrar’s website and additional correspondence will be sent once the system is available for use. However, we wanted to provide the key information below in advance to help prepare for the upcoming evaluation period.  Timeline: April 14: Course evaluations…


History Faculty Meeting

All History faculty - voting meeting.


Book Launch: Dan Rood's In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America

We are pleased to announce that Dan Rood's new book In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America (Norton, 2026) is slated for publication! To mark the launch, there will be a book discussion/Q&A followed by a reception at the Athenaeum on March 17th at 7:30 pm. Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served, and copies of the book will be on sale. This event is free and open to the public


Guest lecture: Jennifer Boittin

Join us for a talk by Dr. Jennifer Boittin, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of History, UNC: "From 20th-Century ‘Undesirables’ to Golden Statues at the 2024 Paris Olympics: Women Defying French Colonial Policing." Boittin’s first book, Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris (2010, University of Nebraska Press) is an innovative, intersectional history of radical interwar…


Faculty Book Launch: Above the Oxbow, by Danielle Raad

The UGA community is invited to a reception in celebration of the new book Above the Oxbow: Stories Entangled with a Mountain (West Virginia University Press, April 2026) by Dr. Danielle Raad, Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies. Above the Oxbow is a journey through the tangle of rich narratives surrounding Mount Holyoke, a locally cherished mountain in Western Massachusetts. The book sits at the intersection of public history and…


Sara Barker: Teaching and Researching Old (French) Books in a Digital Age

"Teaching and Researching Old (French) Books in a Digital Age", with Dr. Sara Barker, University of Leeds (U.K.). Sara Barker researches Early Modern France, especially late sixteenth and early seventeenth century; history of printing, books and news, particularly international works and translation; material culture of books. She is Director of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre ChoP) at Leeds, and series editor for…


History Graduate Student Annual Awards and Dinner

For History faculty and graduate students -  The History Department will hold our annual departmental award ceremony and reception for history graduate students, staff and faculty on Monday. You are welcome to bring a guest.  It's our last department gathering for spring so please join us in celebrating our graduate students and spring MA and PhD graduates! A catered dinner will be served at 5:00 pm, followed by the awards. …


CAS Guest lecture: Benjamin Min Han

Join us for a guest lecture by UGA Grady Professor Dr. Benjamin Min Han: Beyond Squid Game: Korean Media and the Netflix Paradigm  Since the launch of Netflix in South Korea in 2016, the global streaming platform has transformed the Korean media industry in terms of financing, content, and production culture. Netflix has also been celebrated as a patron of creativity, further contributing to the diversification of genres and the…
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