Tags: Faculty


Gender and Race in Europe Virtual Series: Kira Thurman

The History and Gender Workshop presents a virtual speaker series on Gender and Race in Europe. Please join us for this event featuring Dr. Kira Thurman. 5:00 - 6:30 PM. Thurman will talk about her new book, Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, (Cornell University Press, 2021). Pre-registration is required. A limited number of books by the author and historian will be given at no charge to history…


Constitution Day Lecture

On Friday, September 17, 2021, the American Founding Group and the School of Public and International Affairs will host a celebration of Constitution Day. The centerpiece of these festivities will be a lecture open to the public entitled “On Juneteenth: History, Memory, the Present and the Future” by Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello …


September faculty meeting


Lunchtime Time Machine: How Did We Double Human Life Expectancy?

Our ever-popular Lunchtime Time Machine talk series presents Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era as he explores the question "How did we double human life expectancy?" Berry feels compelled to study "old, unhappy, far-off things." A historian of mortality, his research explores the intersections of race, class, gender, family, violence, and death in the nineteenth-century South. All majors are welcome. Free admission, free…


History Faculty meeting

For History department faculty.


Capitalist Souths Keynote Lecture: The Global Cowboy

The University of Georgia Department of History and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to welcome the keynote speaker for the Capitalist Souths interdisciplinary graduate student conference Friday, May 21.This conference is part of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Global Georgia Initiative. Historian Dr. Tore Olsson will present the conference keynote address, "The Global Cowboy: Country Music and American Empire in the…


MSP Lecture Series: Should YOU Get Married on a Plantation?

Join us on Tuesday on You Tube Live as UGA history graduate student Sara Small discusses the question - Should YOU get married on a plantation? The use of plantations as wedding and event venues has been a popular trend for years. Rarely, however, do these venues adequately address their troubled histories – or the lived experiences who enslaved people who once lived there. In this lecture, Ms. Small will discuss the plantation venue industry in…


Faculty meeting


I've Been Here All the While | Alaina E. Roberts

This is a virtual event. Please join us as Dr. Roberts discusses her recent work. Registration is required: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud--pqDkuE9TATjJL-TOQrwJyEfHEWhnJ "In I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, historian Alaina E. Roberts tells a riveting story about Indian Territory in the Reconstruction era that illuminates a broader national moment. A descendant of the African Americans, Chickasaws, and white…


Faculty meeting

Subscribe to Faculty

Support us

We appreciate your financial support. Your gift is important to us and helps support critical opportunities for students and faculty alike, including lectures, travel support, and any number of educational events that augment the classroom experience. Click here to learn more about giving.

Every dollar given has a direct impact upon our students and faculty.