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Graduate Coordinator's meeting

Dr. Román will have the annual spring meeting and luncheon for all current grad students in the history department. Updates and events on this year's programming and prospective graduate class.


PhD Dissertation Defense: David Thomson

David Thomson will defend his Doctoral dissertation entitled, "Bonds of War: The Evolution of World Financial Markets in the Civil War Era" in the conference rm., LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Stephen Berry. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


Phi Alpha Theta, History honor society: Dinner lecture event tickets available

Phi Alpha has some tickets still available for the upcoming dinner lecture, "Lincoln and The Todds: First Family of the American Civil War", given by UGA's very own, Dr. Stephen Berry on February 25th. This event is hosted at the historic Cobb House, downtown Athens and begins at 6pm. Cost per person is $20 and tickets will be sold on the main floor of LeConte on February 10, 11, 16, and 17 from 10-2:30. We have a limited number of seats, so be…


PhD Dissertation Defense: Laura J. Davis

Laura Davis will defend her Doctoral dissertation entitled, "Vexed Waters: Naval Guerrillas, Masculinity, and Mayhem Along The Lower Mississippi River, 1861-1865" in the conference rm., LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Stephen Berry. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


POSTPONED: Stories of Oconee Hill Cemetery

This event has been postponed due to weather, and will be rescheduled at a later date. Phi Alpha Theta is co-sponsoring a walking tour of Oconee Hill Cemetery on Monday with Dr. Stephen Berry. Come and hear the stories of those buried in this antebellum period cemetery. Berry is the Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era, Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern Historical Society. The tour will take…


#Throwback Therapies: History of Medical Science Series Lecture: Vivian Nutton

"Reading Outside the Canon: Some New Thoughts on Medicine in the Time of Galen," Vivian Nutton, a professor of the history of medicine and culture at the First Moscow State Medical School. Nutton studied classics at Cambridge University, before becoming a Fellow of Selwyn College, specializing in ancient history. In 1977, he moved to London where he taught the history of medicine to students at University College and the Wellcome Institute for…


Stephen Berry: "CSI Dixie: Medical Science and Death Investigation in the 19th Century South"

This is a Throwback Therapies: History of Medical Science Series Lecture by Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era and co-founder of the Center for Virtual History at UGA. The lecture focuses on the increasing role of medical science in establishing precise causes of death in the 19th-century U. S., which in turn created a more precise and robust understanding of public health. The data is drawn from two sources—the South…


PhD Dissertation Defense: Katherine Rohrer

Katherine Rohrer will defend her dissertation entitled, "Missionary Mistresses: The Evolution of a New Southern Woman, 1830-1930" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. 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.


Historian Catherine Clinton: "The Assassination of Mary Lincoln"

Award-winning historian Catherine Clinton, author of Mary Lincoln: A Life (HarperCollins, 2009) delivers a short lecture on the myriad tragedies suffered by Mary Lincoln in the aftermath of her husband's murder. Inconsolable in grief, Mary Lincoln was then herself the victim of character assassination in stories that were circulated first by her enemies, then by her biographers and her historians. Come hear the "other half" of the assassination…


Professional Development Workshop: Time Management and Work-Life Balance

Are the rigors of grad school getting you down? Is your personal mantra “it’s not the last minute yet”? This month’s PDW will focus on ways to get (and stay!) organized while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Refreshments will be provided for those who RSVP one week before the event. Email Nicole Gallucci  to RSVP.  
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