Tags: Graduate


Book Presentation /Lecture: Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic

Book presentation and reception with Dr. Jennifer Palmer (UGA, Department of History), who will discuss her book Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic (The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). See the symposium website for details. Sponsored by: Department of History, the Office of the President, the Program in World History and Cultures at Georgia State University, and The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence at…


Lecture: Taking the Courts to the Fields: Native Jurisdiction, Judicial Violence, and Agrarian Conflict in Colonial Oaxaca

Keynote address by Dr. Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University, Department of History), part of the graduate symposium “Research and Evidence: Cities in the Global South.” For details, see the symposium web site. Sponsored by: Department of History, the Office of the President, the Program in World History and Cultures at Georgia State University, and The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence at Emory University


Symposium/Conference: Research and Evidence: Cities in the Global South

A graduate conference sponsored by the Georgia Latin American and Caribbean Studies Initiative. Includes four panels showcasing original research by UGA, Emory, and Georgia State graduate students in history. Features a keynote address by Dr. Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University), 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm, and a book talk by Dr. Jennifer Palmer (UGA) 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm in Rm. 137.  Program available here. Sponsored by: Department of History, the…


Graduate student seminar with special guests Don Doyle and Marjorie Spruill

Doyle will convene a small graduate seminar the following morning after Thursday's Gregory lecture at the Chapel. He will be joined by  eminent ​women's historian​, Professor Marjorie Spruill, whose new book is Divided We Stand: Women’s Rights, Family Values, and the Polarization of American Politics. History graduate students should RSVP to history@uga.edu.  


History Faculty New Book Release and Reception: Jennifer Palmer

Please join us for a book signing, reception, and celebration of Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic, a volume in the series Early Modern Americas (U Penn Press, 2016), by Dr. Jennifer L. Palmer of the Department of History. "Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race,…


Gregory Distinguished Lecture: Don H. Doyle

In this Sixth Annual Gregory Distinguished Lecture, Don H. Doyle, McCausland Professor of History, University of South Carolina, discusses his recent prize-winning book, The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War. Sponsored by the History Department and the Amanda and Greg Gregory Graduate Studies Support Fund.  


History graduate student public history meeting

Graduate students in the history program and other students with a course background in history (MEd SSED, MPH etc.) are invited to meet with Dr. Reason to discuss our Public History in DC program. Graduate students are invited to bring questions.


Public History program in Washington DC Information session

For graduate and undergraduate students -- join us for an information session about UGA’s program in public history in Washington, DC this summer! Students will spend the entire summer living in Washington, DC while interning at major cultural and historical institutions. During Maymester, students participate in a course on American Museums, Parks, and Monuments, which will be taught (mostly) on the Washington Mall with an extended excursion to…


Phi Alpha Theta lecture series: Athens Illuminated with Dr. Stephen Berry

Phi Alpha Theta Epsilon Pi presents a lecture series about the sometimes forgotten aspects of Athens' local history. From historic markers to street and building names, our surrounding landscape may appear to present a white-washed history. However, just beneath the surface is a plurality of perspectives and voices. Each of the three Athens Illuminated lectures will focus on Athens' people or places in order to help bring to light some of this…


Dianne Harris: “Framing Los Angeles, 1960: Case Study House #22 and the Architecture of Whiteness”

Dianne Harris is Dean of the College of Humanities and professor of history at the University of Utah. She holds a doctorate in architectural history from the University of California, Berkeley and is best known for her scholarly contributions to the study of “race and space” – the relationship between the built environment and construction of racial and class identities. Her books include The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture,…
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