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Friends of Gospel Pilgrim Information Session: New UGA Student Service Organization

Please join us for information on a new UGA service organization, "friends of Gospel Pilgrim. Friends of Gospel Pilgrim is committed to service work to help restore and cleanup local historical African American cemeteries. The university community is invited to attend. All majors, students, staff and faculty are welcome. PIZZA will be served!  


Service Day - Friends of Gospel Pilgrim

Friends of Gospel Pilgrim, a UGA student service organization, is hosting a service day at Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery this Saturday, August 26th, from 9-12. Gospel Pilgrim is a historic African American cemetery in Athens in need of care and maintenance. Please come on out and help us preserve this piece of Athens' history! For more information about the service day and to let us know you are coming please check out our FaceBook event. Or check out…


Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Derek Bentley

Derek Bentley will defend his doctoral dissertation, "Democratic Openings: Organized Business, Conservative Protest, and Political-Economic Transformation in Mexico, 1970-1986" in Rm. 112, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Institute, 290 S. Hull Street. The Major Professor is Dr. Pamela Voekel. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.


Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation

8:30 AM -12:00 PM. All new graduate teaching and laboratory assistants who will have instructional responsibilities during 2017-2018 are required to attend this orientation as per University TA Policy. Students should register here. Returning GTAs or GLAs are welcome to attend sessions of interest to them.  If a student is not able to attend orientation on August 8, a makeup session will be held on Saturday, August 19 to meet TA Policy…


Graduate School Orientation and Information Fair

9:00 Am - 12:00 PM. REQUIRED for all new graduate students in history. Complete information about the Orientation and Information Fair is on the Graduate School website .  Please email Judy Milton, jmilton@uga.edu, with any questions.


Fall 2025 student on-line history course evaluations: Nov 25 - Dec. 3, 2024.

Fall 2025 students may submit on-line course evaluations for history classes November 25 through December 3, 2025 ONLY. Student Login - https://webapps.franklin.uga.edu/evaluation/ Note: December 3 (Reading Day) is the last day to submit on-line course evaluations for history classes.


Lunchtime Time Machine: What was medical racism?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Chana Kai Lee. Professor Lee teaches courses in the history of the Civil Rights movement, the history of Georgia, twentieth-century U.S. social history and an introductory course on contemporary issues in African American life and culture. She is the author of the prize-winning book For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, which tells the history…


History Pop-Up at the Russell Special Collections Library

Dr. Steve Soper’s HIST 3775 students will end the term with a pop-up exhibit at the Russell special collections building, on the subject of "Crime and Punishment in Georgia: 20th-Century Prisons and Convict Life." Among the items that will be on display are photographs of convict laborers beginning construction of Sanford Stadium in the 1920s and a crocheted replica of a prison cell made by an inmate on death row in the 1990s. Take a break…


Movie Myth Bustin': U.S. and Memory of WWI

Looking for a way to decompress after the last day of classes and before exams - come hang out, eat pizza, and talk about the first World War! Epsilon Pi, UGA's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, Inc., is hosting a lecture and screening of the WWI film, The Lost Battalion'. History doctoral student Alex Nordlund will discuss the US and its memory of WWI. Nordlund will look at America's entry and participationn in the conflict and the war's impact on…


The Lee Roy B. Giles Award Gallery Talk

Please join us for a Gallery Talk In Celebration of the 2017 Lee Roy B. Giles Encouragement Award Winners. .  Following the ceremony we will be taking a curator tour of the exhibition "Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection." This year history doctoral student James Wall has been selected as the graduate student winner of the Lee Roy B. Giles Encouragement Award. The Lee Roy B. Giles…
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