Image: Morgan Geiser, a double dawg from the UGA Department of History, is inspiring the next generation of historians. Geiser (BS History, ‘20; MS History, ‘21) has spent the past five years teaching history to middle and high school students, and he is currently a teacher for Ignite Christian Academy, an online K-12 learning platform. “My experience at UGA was truly transformative,” he said. Geiser credited the department’s faculty for their endless support of the academic growth of himself and his classmates; in 2021, Geiser received the History Department Award recognizing an outstanding graduate student. He said his instructors also shaped a love for historical research. While at UGA, Geiser’s research interests included studying religious violence and political resistance in sixteenth-century France. Today, Morgan carries that same excitement into his classroom, exploring primary sources together with students as they analyze historical questions. “One of my favorite memories was conducting research at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris as an undergraduate, an opportunity I doubt I could have experienced anywhere else,” Geiser said.
