Tags: Graduate

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…
Anthony will defend his Master's thesis; "Philip: A Rational Financial Actor During the Dutch Revolt 1572-1578." The major professor is Dr. Benjamin Ehlers. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
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…
Sara Intidam will defend her Master's thesis; "Rediscovering Irene: The Role of Black and White Women at the Irene Mound Excavation in Savannah, Georgia, 1937-1940." The major professor is Dr. James Brooks. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
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…
Jacina Hollins-Borges will defend her Master's thesis; "Contested Femininities in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1952." The major professor is Dr. Akela Reason. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
Monica Kincade will defend her Master's thesis; ""Seeing is Believing": The Intersection of Visual Culture and Social Movements in Abolitionist Use of Cartes de Visites." The major professor is Dr. Akela Reason. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
Matthew Gordon will defend his doctoral dissertation, "Deifying the Dreamer and Defying the Dream: Public Memory of Martin Luther King Jr. and the United States, 1868-1983." The major professor is Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu for Zoom details if you wish to attend the presentation part of the defense.
Jared Asser will defend his doctoral dissertation, "A Reconstruction of Feeling: Emotions and Political Crisis in the Postwar U.S. South." The major professor is Dr. Scott Nelson. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.