History faculty in the news...

Stephen Mihm, an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, is a contributor to Bloomberg View. His most recent on-line column for the Bloomberg View is “The Legal Conflict at the Heart of U.S. Retirement Plans.”

Professor Emeritus Jim Cobb’s blog is often printed in Flagpole magazine. His recent article “Things Are So Bad, It May Even Be Time to Listen to Historians” was printed August 1.

History at Work is a series that explores the many ways to turn your degree into a post-college careeer. This installment features librarians and archivists of the UGA Library System. They'll talk about grad school in library science, the different kinds of work that libraries offer, and how historical thinking can keep going after you graduate. Open to students of any major. Free pizza.

In this special edition of Lunchtime Time Machine, the Department of History's graduate students will present snapshots of their research and compete for the chance to give a full LTTM lecture in the spring. The event is open to all undergrads, grad students, and faculty — and the crowd picks the winner. Free pizza. 

UGA senior Leighton Rowell has been awarded a 2016-2017 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Brazil. As an English Teaching Assistant, Leighton will help plan language learning activities and lead classes for university students who are training to become English teachers themselves.

Normally History at Work is dedicated to the non-obvious ways that you can put your degree to use after college, but this installment is dedicated to an option that is probably familiar but also maybe a bit mysterious. Professors Jones, Kreiner, Palmer, and Rood will talk about how grad school in history works, what the job market looks like, what the application process involves, and whatever else the audience wants to know.

Half of all history Ph.D's end up in tenured or tenure-track positions in colleges and universities. Only one-third of those are in research universities.  Are our Ph.D programs therefore preparing most graduate students for careers they are unlikely to have?   Except for faculty at a few elite research universities, historians no longer spend their professional lives just writing books and articles, lecturing in the style of the “50 minute essay,” conducting seminars, and mentoring advanced students.  Moreover, one-fourth of our Ph.D.

The online Global Sisters Report profiles history professor Diane Batts Morrow  on their website Global SistersReport.org. Batts Morrow has been studying the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first congregation of black Catholic sisters in the United States, since she was doctoral student in the late 1990s.