Isabel Mann will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "Benedictine Missionaries and the Intersection of Religion and Race on Skidaway Island, Georgia " on Thursday afternoon. The major professor is Dr. Diane Batts Morrow. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Zachary Allen will defend his Master's thesis entitled, "The Freedmen's Bureau 1865: The Great Failure of  Labor Contracts and Fixed Wage Rates" on Thursday afternoon. The major professor is Dr. John Inscoe. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Laura Nelson will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "A 'Miserable Creature' or 'Remarkable Man': Wilkes Flagg and the Ambiguity of Race in Nineteenth-Century Middle Georgia" on Tuesday morning. The major professor is Dr. Jennifer Palmer. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

It's Graduate Student Appreciation Week! If you are a graduate studnet in history at UGA stop by on your way to class for a slice--we'll have pizza for you today!

It's always time to appreciate our graduate students and teaching and research assistance for their excellence in academics and hard work and support of our classes and programs!To mark the occasion we've got some sweets in the graduate student lounge on Monday, and a piiza lunch for our graduate studnets on Thursday.

A panel and roundtable discussion:  "Using Digitized Prison Data" with Prof. Barry Godfrey (University of Liverpool), Prof. Jayne Mooney (John Jay College of Criminal Justice), Prof. Sarah Shannon (U  Georgia), and Prof. Steven Soper (history at U Georgia).  The panel members will discuss their experience gathering and analyzing large data sets with information on prisons and prisoners in the United States and the United Kingdom, from the eighteenth century to the present. 

This is a free event, the public is invited.

Prof. Barry Godfrey (University of Liverpool), "The Future of the Digital Panopticon."  Godfrey is Professor of Social Justice in the University of Liverpool's Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology.  He is also the Principal Investigator of the remarkable website and database, The Digital Panopticon (www.digitalpanopticon.org), which contains millions of searchable records on approximately 90,000 convicts in Britain and British colonies, from 1780 to 1925.  Prof.

The University of Georgia Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will host our 8th Annual NAACP Image Awards Ceremony on Thursday April 12th, 2018 at 7:00 PM in the Memorial Ballroom located in Memorial Hall. This year’s theme is: “20 Years of Black Excellence”.  We will recognize the outstanding achievements and contributions of our students, faculty, staff, and community members who promote social justice locally and abroad and advance the mission of the NAACP. 

Can the American Congress be ethical in an age of intense partisan warfare? Dr. Julian Zelizer, Princeton University professor and CNN political analyst, will take up the topic of ethics in Congress in a lecture hosted on Thursday, April 5 at 4:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Special Collections Building. We also invite UGA students to join us for a breakfast recap with our guest speaker the following morning (April 6) at 9:00 a.m.

Why Walden pond might appear more virtual and a Pacific island more augmented can be better understood by returning to the archives of two print-age Pacific expeditions by James Cook and George Macartney. Both men ostensibly failed in their imperial tasks, and yet the printed journals and engravings of the expeditions, including the French wallpaper that Reihana draws upon, became fundamental to new conceptions of nature and empire in the late eighteenth century.