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'Preparing for the Academic Job Market’ with UGA History alum, Pat Breen

Graduate students are invited to an informal chat with UGA History alum and associate professor of history at Providence College, Dr. Pat Breen, who will talk about his experience on recent search committees at Providence. Refreshments.


Professional Development Workshop (PDW): Archives Panel

Join us for a virtual panel featuring three Georgia-based archivists who will give us an overview of their collections and discuss some tips and tricks for visiting their specific archives. If time allows, our guests will also discuss possible routes to archival careers. To join the event, please email Andrew Craig for the Zoom info at Andrew.Craig@uga.edu.   Our panelists will include: 1) Lisa Vallen - Southern Labor Archive  2)…


Oconee Library History Series: "From Slavery to the Stars: Examining the Lives and Legacies of Harriet Jacobs and Katherine Johnson"

This month's History Lecture at the Oconee County Library features UGA Ph.D. student Maya Brooks presenting a talk that explores the lives of Harriet Jacobs and Katherine Johnson and the ways in which their experiences as Black women in America were both similar and different.  Jacobs was born enslaved and her narrative explores her struggle to not only free herself but her children as well. Johnson, best known for her work at…


Book talk: "Latin America's Democratic Crusade", with Allen Wells

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Allen Wells, Bowdoin College, on his research and new book Latin America’s Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle Against Dictatorship, 1920s–1960s (Yale University Press, 2023). Allen Wells is Roger Howell, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Bowdoin College. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán, the history of commodities, and U.S.-Latin American relations, and he…


Fall 2024 Final Exams

Fall 2024 Final Exams are Dec. 5-6, and Dec. 9-11.  Schedule: https://reg.uga.edu/general-information/calendars/final-exam-schedule/ Final Exam Policy: A final examination schedule is published each semester by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction, and a preliminary copy is available on the Office of the Registrar web site. No time and date departures from the examination schedule should occur without prior approval of the dean…


UGA Spring 2025 Graduate Student Commencement

Spring 2025 Commencement will take place over two days.  Graduate student Commencement is scheduled for Thursday, May 8. Undergraduate student Commencement is scheduled for Friday, May 9. Check the Commencement.uga.edu website for more details, as they become available.


Fall 2023 Graduate Student Commencement

Graduate student commencement. Information: https://commencement.uga.edu/graduate/


Retirement party for Cilla Cartwright

History faculty, graduate students and staff are invited to a retirement party for Cilla Cartwright Thursday after the faculty meeting, in our 2nd floor conference room, to commemorate Cilla's many years of service with UGA.


Phinizy Lecture: Colson Whitehead

Author Colson Whitehead will visit UGA and Athens for the department of history’s Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, which will be included in the university's Spotlight on the Arts festival. In addition to his public talk in the UGA Chapel, Whitehead will visit with classes at UGA and at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens. Whitehead is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of 11 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-…


HUMANITIES@WORK Speaker Series

The HUMANITIES@WORK speaker event will highlight four folks with careers at UGA who started out as humanities majors. This panel will take place on Wednesday, October 11th at 3 p.m. in the Park Hall Auditorium (room 265). This free event is the first in a series that will take place every October. This year's speakers include: Alan Flurry, Director of Communications in the Franklin College at UGA Dr. Mike Merva, Coordinator, Franklin College…
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