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Working as a Professional Historian, with Jay Driskell

Join us for the presentation and talk, "Working as a Professional Historian" with Jay Driskell. Pre-registration is required. Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqf-yurz0sH9THD4FxkBHZyMMurkWMnk1B Dr. Jay Driskell is the author of Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics (University Press of Virginia, 2014).  A Yale PhD and…


Accepted Graduate Student Virtual Open House

The history department is hosting a virtual history open house for newly admitted graduate students! Our online guests are invited to attend and virtually interact with current graduate students and faculty in history for a fun, and casual event. We will have  several sessions, some social, some informational, to help introduce newly admitted graduate students to our graduate faculty and current grad students. Join us and meet the…


Lunchtime Time Machine: "Should you have a plantation wedding?"

The History Department's Lunchtime Time Machine undergraduate talk series presents Sara Small, a Master's student in history, who will discuss the question, "Should you have a plantation wedding?" Reservations are required. To reserve your virtual space, please send an email from your UGA email address with your name to Ms. Cartwright in history, at cilla71@uga.edu. Students of all majors are invited. This is an FYO event. We've gone virtual!…


Monumental Discussions with Sheffield Hale (B.A. '82)

 Free Join the Atlanta Chapter of the UGA Alumni Association for a conversation with Sheffield Hale (BA history ’82), president and CEO of the Atlanta History Center. Sheffield will lead an educational discussion on historical facts and context around monuments, historic markers, and the meaning behind them. Sign up today to make sure you get to ask your questions! This event will be moderated by Dr. Bennett-Alexander, extensively…


M.A. Thesis Defense: Sarah Anderson

Sarah M. Anderson will defend her M.A. thesis, "Bomber Boys and Their "Girls": Intimate Bonds Formed Between Eighth Air Force Airmen and Bomber Aircraft During the Second World War as Reflected in Nose Art" via remote conference with her graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Akela Reason. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.


History Graduate Student Virtual Writing Retreat

A writing retreat for history graduate students. The first virtual writing retreat will be occurring on November 20-21, 2020 (schedule below). Remember, this writing retreat is optional, and you do not have to attend all sessions (or all of every session), although Friday’s morning session will set the stage for the rest of the time.   A couple notes: we have organized the retreat…


Spring 2021 Classes Begin

    From: All Faculty, Staff and Students <ARCHNEWS@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of Archnews Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 1:27 PM To: ARCHNEWS@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Revisions to the Spring 2021 Academic Calendar   To promote the health and safety of the University of Georgia and local communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, UGA’s Spring 2021 Academic Calendar has been modified. These modifications have been…


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…
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