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M.A. Thesis Defense: Sarah Intidam

Sara Intidam will defend her Master's thesis; "Rediscovering Irene: The Role of Black and White Women at the Irene Mound Excavation in Savannah, Georgia, 1937-1940." The major professor is Dr. James Brooks. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


UGA Spring 2026 on-line course evaluations April 14 - 28

Effective for spring 2026 courses, UGA will implement a new centralized platform for end-of-term course evaluations. Information about the system is available on the Office of the Registrar’s website and additional correspondence will be sent once the system is available for use. However, we wanted to provide the key information below in advance to help prepare for the upcoming evaluation period.  Timeline: April 14: Course evaluations…


M.A. Thesis Defense: Jacina Hollins-Borges

Jacina Hollins-Borges will defend her Master's thesis; "Contested Femininities in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1952." The major professor is Dr. Akela Reason. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


M.A. Thesis Defense: Monica Kincade

Monica Kincade will defend her Master's thesis; ""Seeing is Believing": The Intersection of Visual Culture and Social Movements in Abolitionist Use of Cartes de Visites." The major professor is Dr. Akela Reason. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Matthew Gordon

Matthew Gordon will defend his doctoral dissertation, "Deifying the Dreamer and Defying the Dream: Public Memory of Martin Luther King Jr. and the United States, 1868-1983." The major professor is Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu for Zoom details if you wish to attend the presentation part of the defense.


Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Jared Asser

Jared Asser will defend his doctoral dissertation, "A Reconstruction of Feeling: Emotions and Political Crisis in the Postwar U.S. South." The major professor is Dr. Scott Nelson. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.


Graduate student meetup with Dr. Sara Barker (UGA/Leeds partnership)

 Graduate students in history are invited to meet up with Dr. Sara Barker, who is visiting the history department this week as a participant in the UGA/Leeds partnership. Coffee, tea, pastries.


Book Launch: Dan Rood's In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America

We are pleased to announce that Dan Rood's new book In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America (Norton, 2026) is slated for publication! To mark the launch, there will be a book discussion/Q&A followed by a reception at the Athenaeum on March 17th at 7:30 pm. Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served, and copies of the book will be on sale. This event is free and open to the public


Guest lecture: Jennifer Boittin

Join us for a talk by Dr. Jennifer Boittin, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of History, UNC: "From 20th-Century ‘Undesirables’ to Golden Statues at the 2024 Paris Olympics: Women Defying French Colonial Policing." Boittin’s first book, Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris (2010, University of Nebraska Press) is an innovative, intersectional history of radical interwar…


Faculty Book Launch: Above the Oxbow, by Danielle Raad

The UGA community is invited to a reception in celebration of the new book Above the Oxbow: Stories Entangled with a Mountain (West Virginia University Press, April 2026) by Dr. Danielle Raad, Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies. Above the Oxbow is a journey through the tangle of rich narratives surrounding Mount Holyoke, a locally cherished mountain in Western Massachusetts. The book sits at the intersection of public history and…
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