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Join us in celebrating the release of Dr. Cassia Roth's forthcoming book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil, (Stanford U Press, January 2020). A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cassia Roth is Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of…

The University of Georgia Department of History and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce the first Capitalist Souths interdisciplinary graduate student conference to be held March 13-14, 2020, at the UGA campus in Athens, Georgia. This conference is part of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Global Georgia Initiative. Our conference invites graduate students to submit proposals that illuminate new work that draws…

Louise Milone will defend her doctoral dissertation, "Smoke Meant Money: The History of Smog in a Pennsylvania Steel Town." The major professor is Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch. 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.

Trrell Orr will defend his doctoral dissertation,  “The Roots of a Global Grove: Labor, Markets, and Nature in the Citrus Industries of Florida and São Paulo.”  The major professor is Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch. 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.

Cal Bedenbaugh will take his oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room. The Major Professor is Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch. All members of the university community are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in history at history@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating.

History graduate students and faculty are invited to join us for an informal summer writing retreat series.  Whether you are working on writing a thesis, article, book, grant, or application, all are welcome to join us in a space dedicated to writing productivity. Mondays this summer, 10 AM - 5 pm.

Bryant K. Barnes will defend his doctoral dissertation, "Bonded by Debt: Interracial Politics, Railroads, and Capitalism in the Gilded Age South.”  The major professor is Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson. 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.

Robert Ferguson will defend his doctoral dissertation, "Fibers of American Order: Trade Politics and the Pursuit of Cotton Supremacy, 1933-1947.”  The major professor is Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson. 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.

Alex Bowen will take his oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room. The Major Professor is Dr. Scott Nelson. All members of the university community are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in history at history@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating.

The Willson Center's eHistory Research Cluster, the department of history, and the Institute of Native American Studies present a conversation on "Native Ground: Place and Language in the Cherokee Nation" at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23 in Room 250 of the Miller Learning Center. Topics will include mapping Cherokee homesteads in the nineteenth century, Removal Period archaeology, and Cherokee language and culture…