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PhD Comprehensive Examination: Victoria Do

Victoria Do will take her oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance at history@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating.


Master's Thesis Defense: Kenneth Roundy

Kenneth Roundy will defend his thesis entitled, "Chemical Solutions and Human Resistance: The Fight Against Coca Eradication in the Andes" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Shane Hamilton. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


History Department and Graduate Student Annual Awards

The History Department will hold our annual departmental award ceremony and reception for history graduate students, staff and faculty at Demosthenian Hall. BBQ Dinner will be provided(with vegetarian alternative). History faculty, staff, MA and PhD students should RSVP to history@uga.edu by April 15, 2017.


PhD Comprehensive Examination: T. Luke Manget

Luke Manget will take his oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. John Inscoe. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office at history@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating.


Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Kylie Hulbert

Kylie Hulbert will defend her dissertation entitled, "“Vigorous and Bold Operations”: The Times and Lives of Privateers in the Atlantic World during the American Revolution" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Peter Hoffer. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


Douglas A. Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II"

David Blackmon will present his talk Thursday at UGA's Dean Rusk Hall.  He spent more than two decades as a daily newspaper reporter and bureau chief and won his first Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal staff's breaking news coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "Slavery by Another Name," published in 2008, won the Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction book category. It documents the widespread incidence of African-…


Civil Rights Historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin: "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America."

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law and a professor of history at Harvard University, will present "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America." The Donald L. Hollowell Lecture annually brings to UGA a national or international expert in the areas of civil and human rights or social and economic sustainability. The lecture is co-sponsored by…


Visiting lecturer Peter Wood: “Did you ever hear ‘bout de Andersonville prison in Georgia?”

 A fresh sesquicentennial look at a familiar Civil War topic--Peter Wood (Professor Emeritus, Duke U) is an American historian and author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974). It has been described as one of the most influential books on southern U.S. history of the past 50 years. The university community is invited to attend. Sponsored by the Department of History.


Master's Thesis Defense: Ashley Allred

Ashley Allred will defend her thesis entitled, "A Strategy Gone South: The British, the Backcountry, and Violence in Revolutionary South Carolina" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Peter Hoffer. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Samuel McGuire

Samuel  McGuire will defend his dissertation entitled, "East Tennessee's Grand Army: Union Veterans Confront Race, Reconciliation, and Civil War Memory, 1884-1913" 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 at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.
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