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History Dept. Faculty Meeting

History Dept. Faculty meeting.


Guest Speaker John Parker : “What’s a History Degree Good for Anyway?”

Distinguished UGA alum John R. Parker Jr. (History, '73) presents a talk on "What’s a History Degree Good for Anyway?” John Parker is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel,Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. This event is free and open to the public. Pizza will be served for this lunch hour talk.


Fall semester 2015 Classes begin

Drop/Add for all courses is August 17 - 21 (Mon - Fri).


UGA Graduate School to hold Three Minute Thesis competition

Students will present their research in rapid-fire presentations. Join us to support our graduate students and the department. Doctoral Student Andrew Fialka (history) is one of the 10 finalists!


History Faculty Meeting

Monthly faculty meeting for faculty members in history. The meeting this month will be in Rm. 221.


History Department and Graduate Student Annual Awards

The History Department will hold our annual departmental award ceremony and reception for history graduate students, staff and faculty at Demosthenian Hall. BBQ Dinner will be provided(with vegetarian alternative). History faculty, staff, MA and PhD students should RSVP to history@uga.edu by April 15, 2017.


Douglas A. Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II"

David Blackmon will present his talk Thursday at UGA's Dean Rusk Hall.  He spent more than two decades as a daily newspaper reporter and bureau chief and won his first Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal staff's breaking news coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "Slavery by Another Name," published in 2008, won the Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction book category. It documents the widespread incidence of African-…


Civil Rights Historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin: "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America."

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law and a professor of history at Harvard University, will present "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America." The Donald L. Hollowell Lecture annually brings to UGA a national or international expert in the areas of civil and human rights or social and economic sustainability. The lecture is co-sponsored by…


Visiting lecturer Peter Wood: “Did you ever hear ‘bout de Andersonville prison in Georgia?”

 A fresh sesquicentennial look at a familiar Civil War topic--Peter Wood (Professor Emeritus, Duke U) is an American historian and author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974). It has been described as one of the most influential books on southern U.S. history of the past 50 years. The university community is invited to attend. Sponsored by the Department of History.


Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Kathleen Nehls

Kathleen Nehls will defend her dissertation entitled, "Red-Tape Fraternities: State-building in the Age of Associationalism, 1870-1935" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Paul Sutter. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
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