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headshot of Cindy Hahamovitch courtesy of UGA Franklin College

UGA’s Hahamovitch awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship

Cindy Hahamovitch, B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of Southern History in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2021 Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Gender Race and Sexuality boook talk poster - see calendar listing for details

Gender, Race, and Slavery in the Atlantic World: A Zoom Speaker Series

Please see our events listing for details and a link to Zoom reservations. Graduate students in history who attend will receive a copy of the book in advance. A short presentation about the book will be followed by a Q and A session and general conversation.

Josh Fuder, Ray Covington and Stephen Mihm

Heritage Orchard to reclaim Georgia’s forgotten apples

@UGAResearch - By Michael Terrazas Photography By Amy Ware, Josh Fuder

Cassia Roth

Dr. Cassia Roth awarded NEH Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr. Cassia Roth for her recently announced NEH Fellowship, for research on "Enslaved Women, Reproduction, and the Gradual End of Slavery in Nineteenth-century Brazil."


A student reading list: learn more about the roots of racial violence and institutionalized racism

As students of history you are probably hungry to learn more about the roots of racial violence and institutionalized racism. The history faculty put together a list of recommended readings that can help you understand the history of race.