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UGA Franklin/Gable Visiting Scholar Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film"

Please join the departments of History, Anthropology, and the Institute of Native American Studies to welcome Professor Liza Black of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma for a discussion of her new book, Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960.  As a UGA Franklin/Gable Visiting Scholar, she will discuss a life that moved between Oklahoma and Los Angeles, and her explorations into the working lives of Native actors in Hollywood.…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss current research by Devin Jerome, a doctoral student in history at the University of Georgia. (Topic TBA). The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are interested in attending can contact Scott Nelson for a copy of the paper: srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Coal-Fired Capitalism: Railroaders, Miners and the Long Red Summer In Appalachian Kentucky” with its author, Matthew O'Neal, a doctoral student in history at the University of Georgia. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are interested in attending…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Natural Risk: An Environmental History of West Texas Oil and The Rise of Sun Belt Texas” with its author, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, assistant professor of environmental history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Lakes of Sacrifice: Brazilian Ethanol, Development, and Water Pollution” with its author, Jennifer Eaglin, assistant professor of environmental history/sustainability at the Ohio State University. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are interested…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture For Africa's Agricultural Transformation” with its author, Dr. Rachel Schurman, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Rural Development and Its Discontents: Germany, China, and the Rockefeller Foundation in the Interwar Period” with its author, Shellen Xiao Wu, Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville.. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not…


Faculty meeting


"They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South", with Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers

Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers, associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss her book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale U Press, 2020). This talk will occur remotely via Zoom.  Click here to make a Zoom reservation Graduate students in history who attend will receive a copy of the book in advance. A short presentation about the book will be followed by a Q…


"Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima", with Dr. Tamara Walker

Dr. Tamara Walker will join us to discuss her most recent book, Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima (Cambridge, 2017). Walker's scholarship focuses on three interrelated thematic areas: the history of slavery and freedom in Latin America; the process of racial formation in the region; and the ways in which gender shaped the experience of enslavement and racialization. This talk will be presented remotely via Zoom, space…
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