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2025-26 Graduating History Majors Recognition & Annual Awards

2025-26 graduating History majors are invited to the annual History Department Graduation Reception May 8, 2026.  The reception will include our annual awards and graduation recognition, with a gift for each graduating senior in attendance.  AN RSVP invitation will be emailed to all 2025-26 graduates in March 2026. We would like to take a group photo of our prospective graduates following the awards. Students are encourage to wear…


Lunchtime Time Machine: How modern is surveillance?

Join us as Dr. Steven Soper explores answers to the question - How modern is surveillance? Soper's study of association of life in nineteenth-century Italy, Building a Civil Society, was published last fall by the University of Toronto Press. It won the American Association of Italian Studies 2014 prize for the best book on 18th- or 19th-century Italy, and the Society for Italian Historical Studies 2014 Marraro prize for the best book on the…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Did Jesus actually live in the 12th century?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Joseph Kellner who will explore the intriguing question, Did Jesus actually live in the 12th century? Dr. Kellner teaches Russian and Soviet history His forthcoming book, The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse, is a cultural history of the collapse of the USSR, focused on the highly visible flourishing of radical spiritual…


Lunchtime Time Machine with Tracey Johnson: How did a prison rebellion lead to a nationwide prison arts program?

Join us for lunch as Dr. Tracey Johnson investigates the query, How did a prison rebellion lead to a nationwide prison arts program? In the wake of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion, a Black artist activist group called the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) started a prison arts exchange to help ameliorate the conditions for incarcerated people. This talk will focus on the effectiveness and power of the educational and therapeutic effects…


Graduate Student Appreciation Coffee Hour!

It's Graduate Student Appreciation Week! Coffee, tea and snacks in the Faculty Lounge.  Stop by and thank your TA for all of the work they do for our UGA community and history! Anyone is welcome. 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM.


Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society) General Meeting

Phi Alpha Theta, Epsilon PI, UGA's chapter of the National History Honor Society, is having a general meeting April 10. Whether you are a member or interested in learning more about the chapter, join us at 6pm.


Christopher Craig (Tohoku University), "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan"

Join us for a presentation by Christopher Craig (Tohoku University), "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan".  Via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92427629754 Christopher Craig is currently Professor of Japanese Studies and the Head of the Research and Development Unit of the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies at Tohoku University (Japan). Sponsored by University of Georgia's Center for Asian Studies…


A Virtual Curatorial Tour of Red Coral Stories: Reimagining Classical Pasts for Native Futures

Join us for a virtual curatorial tour of Red Coral Stories: Reimagining Classical Pasts for Native Futures. Red Coral Stories is an ongoing curatorial project by Kendall Lovely (Diné), a doctoral student at University of California-Santa Barbara, to understand Southwest Native art as part of cultural exchanges across time and space. The title for this digital exhibition evokes a Red Ancient Mediterranean, in which adoption and…


HGSA Conference Keynote Address: Dr. Blair LM Kelley, "Black Folk, The Roots of the Black Working Class"

Join us as Dr. Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D., discusses her research and book, Black Folk, The Roots of the Black Working Class, which was named one of the Smithsonian's Best Books of 2023. Black Folk was awarded a 2020 Creative Nonfiction Grant by the Whiting Foundation, and the 2022-23 John Hope Franklin/NEH Fellowship by National Humanities Center.  Blair LM Kelley is an award-winning author, historian, and scholar of the African American…


"What can you do with a history degree?" with UGA alum Stan Deaton (Georgia Historical Society)

Join us for a presentation by UGA history alum Stan Deaton, Senior Historian at the Georgia Historical Society. Dr. Deaton will give a talk on public history career pathways for graduate and undergraduate students. This is a free event. All majors and prospective students are welcome to attend. Pizza will be served. ................................ Stan Deaton is the Senior Historian and The Dr. Elaine B. Andrews Distinguished Historian at the…
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