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Stephen Mihm: Civil Forfeiture Came From a Strange Place

Stphen Mihm, contributor to Bloomberg View, has a new article out noting how Jeff Sessions goes medieval--literally--with his revival of civil forfeiture. Finding guilt in inanimate objects is far from a new concept, notes Mihm, who relates the path of civil forfeiture still used today to claim assets in the “War on Drugs”. Read the entire article here on the Bloomberg View.

Alumni awarded 2017 Smithsonian Predoctoral fellowship

Sherri Sheu while studying as an undergrad at UGA

Sherri Sheu, an environmental historian and doctoral student at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is the recipient of a 2017 Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship. Sheu graduated with a bachelor's degree in history at the University of Georgia, where she was active in Phi Alpha Theta, Inc. and instrumental in the creation of a studnet conference while she was an undergraduate.

UGA Alum Named NEH Public Scholar 2017-18

book cover of  one world big screen

M. Todd Bennett, a graduate of UGA's Ph.D. program in history (2001), has been named as one of just 28 NEH Public Scholars for 2017-2018. Bennett's NEH grant is for his book project entitled, "Howard Hughes, the CIA, and the Untold Story Behind Their Hunt for a Sunken Soviet Submarine." The book explores intelligence oversight and accountability though a narrative account of the covert 1974 CIA operation to use Howard Hughes’s ship Glomar Explorer to raise a sunken Soviet submarine.

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