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Master's Thesis Defense: Laura Briscoe

Laura Briscoe will defend her thesis entitled, "Sex, the Sacred, and the State: The Southern Baptist Convention and the Christian Right, 1960-1985" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Bethany Moreton. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


PhD Comprehensive Examination: Bea Burton

Bea Burton will take oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Stephen Berry. 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.


Master's Thesis Defense: Ruth Davis

Ruth Davis will defend her thesis entitled, "Red-Blooded Americans: Racial Identity and the Mexican American Crusade for Equal Education, 1924-1946" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Pamela Voekel. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


UGA Graduate School to hold Three Minute Thesis competition

Students will present their research in rapid-fire presentations. Join us to support our graduate students and the department. Doctoral Student Andrew Fialka (history) is one of the 10 finalists!


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-…
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