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UGA Franklin/Gable Visiting Scholar Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film"

Please join the departments of History, Anthropology, and the Institute of Native American Studies to welcome Professor Liza Black of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma for a discussion of her new book, Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960.  As a UGA Franklin/Gable Visiting Scholar, she will discuss a life that moved between Oklahoma and Los Angeles, and her explorations into the working lives of Native actors in Hollywood.…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss current research by Devin Jerome, a doctoral student in history at the University of Georgia. (Topic TBA). The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are interested in attending can contact Scott Nelson for a copy of the paper: srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Coal-Fired Capitalism: Railroaders, Miners and the Long Red Summer In Appalachian Kentucky” with its author, Matthew O'Neal, a doctoral student in history at the University of Georgia. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are interested in attending…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Natural Risk: An Environmental History of West Texas Oil and The Rise of Sun Belt Texas” with its author, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, assistant professor of environmental history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv…


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Wageless Life on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 1880-1915” with its author, Emma Teitelman, Mellon Research Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are interested in attending can…


Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group

A virtual meeting for the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group. Topics and discussion will vary based on collaborative input from history graduate students.  Please contact Ally Velez or Valerie McLaurin for more information and an invitation link.


Dirty History Seminar for Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us on Friday, September 18 at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper “Two Coffee Colonies: Environment, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in Suriname and St. Domingue, 1750-1790” with its author, Rafael Marquese, Professor in the Department of History at the Universidade de São Paulo. The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two…


Black History Month Book Club: Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University

Louis Nelson (University of Virginia) will meet with students to discuss Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University (UVA Press, 2019), the volume he co-edited with Maurie McInnis (University of Texas). We have twenty copies of the book to give away free to students who are interested in participating. Please email history@uga.edu to RSVP and to obtain a free copy of the book. Pizza will be provided! A…


Join us for a special Reading Group event to discuss "Cigarettes, Inc: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism"

The Capitalism Reading Group in conjunction with the Gender, Race, and Sexuality reading group will be hosting this event.  We will be reading excerpts from Nan Enstad’s 2018 work Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (U Chicago Press).  All newly accepted students are invited to this open house as well as current students and faculty.  Refreshments will be provided and all interested parties will be…


Black History Month Book Club: The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

Black History Month is February, and the Department of History is kicking things off with a reading club, featuring Professor Thavolia Glymph's The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, which has just been published this month.  Glymph is a distinguished historian of African-American history at Duke University.  You can read more about her work here.  We have twenty copies of Glymph'…
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