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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,…


Grad student audition edition of Lunchtime Time Machine

In this special edition of Lunchtime Time Machine, the Department of History's graduate students will present snapshots of their research and compete for the chance to give a full LTTM lecture in the spring. The event is open to all undergrads, grad students, and faculty — and the crowd picks the winner. Free pizza.   


Jim Grossman, American Historical Association: "Preparing Historians for the Future Instead of the Past”

Half of all history Ph.D's end up in tenured or tenure-track positions in colleges and universities. Only one-third of those are in research universities.  Are our Ph.D programs therefore preparing most graduate students for careers they are unlikely to have?   Except for faculty at a few elite research universities, historians no longer spend their professional lives just writing books and articles, lecturing in the…


PhD Comprehensive Examination: Andrew Craig

Andrew Craig will take his oral comprehensive examinations with his Graduate Advisory Committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Hahamovitch. Members of the university community are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in history before November 15, to ensure adequate seating.


MA Thesis Defense: Alec Kraynak

Alec Kraynak will defend his Master's thesis entitled, "Unspoken Rivalries: The State Department and Colonial Capitalism in French Mandate Syria (1930-1944)" on Monday afternoon. The major professor is Dr. Kevin Jones. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


“‘Things Other than Babies and the Kitchen’: Dutch Domesticity and U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Early Cold War”

This is a public lecture by David J. Snyder, Faculty Principal of the Carolina International House and Senior Instructor of History at the University of South Carolina. His work has appeared in Diplomatic History and the sJournal of Cold War Studies as well as other journals and anthologies. He is the co-editor, most recently, of Reasserting America in the 1970s: U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America’s Image Abroad (University of…


Graduate Student Speaker Series

For graduate students in history. MA student Laura Nelson will present.
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