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For history faculty - department writing plan meeting for WIP program.
The Annual History Department Graduation Luncheon is the afternoon of May 10, Commencement Day. All students who RSVP;d have a seat at a luncheon table. Our luncheon tables are full, but students can still get a seat around the room if they have not RSVP'd, so please join us! This event is scheduled for Friday, May 10, 2024 – 12:00-1:30 PMThe room will open by 11:30 am, and Special Collections has a lot of great exhibits to view in the building…
Hispanic Heritage Month guest lecture, "New Histories of the Latino South: A Conversation with Cecilia Márquez and Sarah McNamara". Cecilia Márquez is the Hunt Family Assistant Professor in History and previously taught Latino/a Studies at New York University. She earned her MA and PhD in American History at the University of Virginia. Her forthcoming book, Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation will be released September 2023…
Join us for a talk by Dr. Kris Lane, "Cash for Your Gold! Precious Metals, the Environment, & Early Modernity." A historian of early modern mining, Kris Lane revisits precious metals extraction and circulation in light of new approaches to materialism and environmental degradation. Kris Lane holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA. He is author of Pandemic in …
Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper (TBA) with its author, Kris Lane. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and…
Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Cooperation, Collusion, and the Chicken Cartels" with its author. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of…
Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper (TBA) with its author, Jessie Luna. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and…
Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper TBA with its author, Nathanael Mickelson, PhD Candidate, University of Georgia. The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu. Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the…
Join us for a book talk with alum Dr. Marvin Chiles, Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University. Chiles will discuss his research and new book, The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond (2023, University of Virginia Press). Free and open to the public. Refreshments from Big City Bread. This is an FYO event…
Please join us for a history talk by Dr. Christina Snyder, "Building UGA: Convict Labor at Sanford Stadium and Beyond". Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era at The Pennsylvania State University and a UGA alum (AB 2001). She is an historian of colonialism, race, and slavery, with a focus on North America from the pre-contact era through the late nineteenth century. Free and open to the public. Pizza will be served.…