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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.…
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…
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…
Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Natural Risk: An Environmental History of West Texas Oil and The Rise of Sun Belt Texas” with its author, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, assistant professor of environmental history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv…
Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Wageless Life on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 1880-1915” with its author, Emma Teitelman, Mellon Research Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge. 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…
Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Lakes of Sacrifice: Brazilian Ethanol, Development, and Water Pollution” with its author, Jennifer Eaglin, assistant professor of environmental history/sustainability at the Ohio State University. 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…
Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture For Africa's Agricultural Transformation” with its author, Dr. Rachel Schurman, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota. 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…
Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Rural Development and Its Discontents: Germany, China, and the Rockefeller Foundation in the Interwar Period” with its author, Shellen Xiao Wu, Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville.. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not…
A virtual meeting for the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group. Topics and discussion will vary based on collaborative input from history graduate students.  Please contact Ally Velez or Valerie McLaurin for more information and an invitation link.
Our second meeting of the history of capitalism reading group will address the thematic question: What do we do with the concept of modes of production in the historiography of capitalism? To tackle this, we will be reading three short articles by different scholars, addressing different aspects of the theme. David Graeber, "Turning Modes of Production Inside Out Or, Why Capitalism is a Transformation of Slavery," Critique of Anthropology…