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M.A. Thesis Defense: Zachary J. Allen

Zachary Allen will defend his Master's thesis entitled, "The Freedmen's Bureau 1865: The Great Failure of  Labor Contracts and Fixed Wage Rates" on Thursday afternoon. The major professor is Dr. John Inscoe. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


M.A. Thesis Defense: Laura E. Nelson

Laura Nelson will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "A 'Miserable Creature' or 'Remarkable Man': Wilkes Flagg and the Ambiguity of Race in Nineteenth-Century Middle Georgia" on Tuesday morning. The major professor is Dr. Jennifer Palmer. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


GSAW History Graduate Student Pizza Lunch

It's Graduate Student Appreciation Week! If you are a graduate studnet in history at UGA stop by on your way to class for a slice--we'll have pizza for you today!    


Student Breakfast Q & A with Dr. Julian Zelizer

Can the American Congress be ethical in an age of intense partisan warfare? Dr. Julian Zelizer, Princeton University professor and CNN political analyst, will take up the topic of ethics in Congress in a lecture hosted on Thursday, April 5 at 4:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Special Collections Building. We also invite UGA students to join us for a breakfast recap with our guest speaker the following morning (April 6) at 9:00 a.m.…


The Cruel Optimism of the Digital Panorama: Atlantic Humanism and Its Pacific Other

Why Walden pond might appear more virtual and a Pacific island more augmented can be better understood by returning to the archives of two print-age Pacific expeditions by James Cook and George Macartney. Both men ostensibly failed in their imperial tasks, and yet the printed journals and engravings of the expeditions, including the French wallpaper that Reihana draws upon, became fundamental to new conceptions of nature and empire in the late…


Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Katherine Brackett Fialka

Katherine Fialka will defend her doctoral dissertation, "Textual Healing: Female Readers, Self-Writing, And Sensibility In The American South, 1840-1900" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Stephen Berry. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.


Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Andrew W. Fialka

Andrew Fialka will defend his doctoral dissertation, "Of Methods and Madness: A Spatial History Approach to the Civil War's Guerrilla Violence " in the Main Library Administrative Conference Room (2nd Floor). The Major Professor is Dr. Stephen Berry. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.


M.A. Thesis Defense: Emma Rountree

Emma Rountree will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "The Inheritance of Blood First": Three White Women’s Takes on Miscegenation and the "Tragic Mulatta" on Wednesday morning. The major professor is Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


M.A. Thesis Defense: Gabriell Johnson-Cameron

Gabriell Johnson-Cameron will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "We Don't Have Racism Up Here" The Social Influence of the Presence and Advertisement of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Scotland" on Wednesday morning. The major professor is Dr. Jennifer Palmer. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


CFP: “Children, Youth, and War Symposium,” at the University of Georgia

A one-day symposium on Children, Youth, and War will be held at the University of Georgia on March 19, 2018.  Hosted by James Marten, Professor of History at Marquette University, and Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era at the University of Georgia, the symposium will provide an intense exploration of all aspects—on both the home front and the battlefront—of the experiences of children in times of war in all eras and…
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