Monica Kincade will defend her Master's thesis; ""Seeing is Believing": The Intersection of Visual Culture and Social Movements in Abolitionist Use of Cartes de Visites."

Matthew Gordon will defend his doctoral dissertation, "Deifying the Dreamer and Defying the Dream: Public Memory of Martin Luther King Jr. and the United States, 1868-1983." The major professor is Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu for Zoom details if you wish to attend the presentation part of the defense.

Jared Asser will defend his doctoral dissertation, "A Reconstruction of Feeling: Emotions and Political Crisis in the Postwar U.S. South." The major professor is Dr. Scott Nelson. Members of the university community are invited to attend the presentation part of the defense. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

 Graduate students in history are invited to meet up with Dr. Sara Barker, who is visiting the history department this week as a participant in the UGA/Leeds partnership.

Coffee, tea, pastries.

All History faculty - voting meeting.

We are pleased to announce that Dan Rood's new book In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America (Norton, 2026) is slated for publication! To mark the launch, there will be a book discussion/Q&A followed by a reception at the Athenaeum on March 17th at 7:30 pm. Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served, and copies of the book will be on sale. This event is free and open to the public

Join us for a talk by Dr. Jennifer Boittin, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of History, UNC: "From 20th-Century ‘Undesirables’ to Golden Statues at the 2024 Paris Olympics: Women Defying French Colonial Policing."

The UGA community is invited to a reception in celebration of the new book Above the Oxbow: Stories Entangled with a Mountain (West Virginia University Press, April 2026) by Dr. Danielle Raad, Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies.