Tags: Graduate

The last member meeting of the semester as well as elections for next year's Executive Board will be Monday April 10th at 5. We will send out the agenda for this meeting to our members closer to the date but this meeting is mostly for electing our new Exec Board. All five EB positions are open for next year. These positions include President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Historian. If you would like to run for a position please let…
William (Billy) McKee will defend his M.A. thesis, "A Veneer of Competition: The Mahogany Association, 1918-1964" via Zoom. The Major Professor is Dr. Daniel Rood. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office by noon, May 8 for a Zoom invite.
A Conversation about Slavery at UGA and the Baldwin Site Burials: Questions and Answers from UGA faculty, students, and Athens community leaders. The event will be held in the Russell Auditorium on the second floor of the library. It will begin with a panel discussion and include an extended Q&A period to engage with the audience. Free and open to the public. Parking info below. Participants include: Valerie Babb, Director, Institute of…
Charles Leerhsen, author of “Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty,” will discuss his book, which the Boston Globe has called “a fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history.”   Following the lecture, historian Jim Cobb, author Terry Kay, and sports broadcaster Loran Smith will participate in a panel discussion. A reception and book signing will follow at 5:30 p.m. Sponsored by: University of…
Steven Krug will defend his M.A. thesis, ""Necessity Has No Law": Royal Governors in the Pre-Revolutionary Constitutional Debates" via Zoom conference with his graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Stephen Mihm. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.  
Kathryn Veale will defend her M.A. thesis, "Meddling Mothers and Mediated Midwives: Negotiating Childbirth in Maternity Charities of Eighteenth-Century London " in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Jennifer Palmer. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.
Dan Du will defend her doctoral dissertation, "This World in a Teacup: Chinese-American Tea Trade in the Nineteenth Century" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Allan Kulikoff. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.
Phi Alpha Theta's annual spring dinner lecture - "Between a Dungeon and the Deep Blue Sea" presented by Dr. Steven Soper (UGA, History) . Mark your calendars for a great night of history, community, and dinner from Dondero's kitchen. Limited seating. Advance tickets are required for this event, tickets are sold out. From Dr. Soper: "Anyone interested in the trauma of deportation in the contemporary world might wonder how the experience of…
Alisha Cromwell will defend her doctoral dissertation, "Complicating the Patriarchy: Elite and Enslaved Business Women in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Allan Kulikoff. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.
For graduate students in history