Jermaine Thibodeaux, a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, will discuss his paper, "A Terrible Transformation: Creating an Agro-Carceral Landscape in the Texas Sugar Bowl, 1843-1912." Participants should have read the paper. To receive a copy, email danrood@uga.edu.

Alden Young, Director of Africana Studies, Drexel University, will discuss his paper, "Making Sudan County: The Economizing Logic of the State." Participants should have read the paper. To receive a copy, email danrood@uga.edu.

LaGuana Gray, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at San Antonio, will discuss her paper, “ ‘We Come This Far by Faith’: How Black Women Organized the Mississippi Catfish Processing Industry.” Participants should have read the paper. To receive a copy, email danrood@uga.edu.

Mac Marquis, PhD Candidate in History from the College of William & Mary, will discuss his paper, "Tick, Tick, Boom: Dynamite, Cattle Ticks, and the Southern Agrarian Bombing Campaign, 1906-1935." Participants should have read the paper. For a copy, email danrood@uga.edu.

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Adriana Chira, Assistant Professor of Atlantic World History at Emory University, will discuss her paper, "Racial Confraternity" Reconsidered: Becoming Free of Color in Cuba, 1803-1868." Participants should have read the paper. For a copy, email danrood@uga.edu.

The history department is having a retirement reception in honor of the retirement of our Business Manager Sharon Cabe in the conference room from 11am - 1pm. All staff, faculty and graduate students from the department of history are invited to stop by from 11-1 for lunch and cake.

 

Delaney Kelly will defend her Master's thesis entitled, "Tiocfaidh Ár Lá and Mitakuye Oyasin: The Trans-Atlantic Alliance Between the American Indian Movement and the Irish Republican Movement", via Zoom. The major professor is Dr. James Brooks. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program prior to June 22 if you wish to attend, for a Zoom invite.