Crafting Cultural Commodities in a Global Age: Market Regulation, Empire, and the Struggle to Defend “French” Wine in the Early Twentieth Century Elizabeth Heath is an historian of Modern France and the French Empire, her research focuses on colonialism, globalization, and everyday life in France and the French empire. Read more about Crafting Cultural Commodities in a Global Age: Market Regulation, Empire, and the Struggle to Defend “French” Wine in the Early Twentieth Century
Doctoral alumn James Gigantino in Salon on-line magazine James Gigantino (Ph.D. History, 2010, UGA) and author of a new book The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey 1775-1865, was recently quoted in Salon, an on-line magazine, in yesterday's article "Secret history of a northern slave state: How slavery was written into New Jersey’s DNA" by Robert Hennelly. Tags: Alumni News Read more about Doctoral alumn James Gigantino in Salon on-line magazine
Bentley awarded competitive FLAS fellowship for 2015-16 Derek Bentley, a doctoral candidate in history, has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship for the academic year 2015-16, through UGA's Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI) and the State Department of Education. FLAS Fellowships are authorized under Title VI of the Higher Education Act and are administered by the United States Department of Education. Tags: Graduate Student News Read more about Bentley awarded competitive FLAS fellowship for 2015-16
Gregory Distinguished Lecture: Martha Hodes "Mourning Lincoln: The Assassination and the Aftermath of the Civil War," presented by Martha Hodes, a professor of history at New York University. Public responses to Lincoln's assassination have been well chronicled, but Hodes is the first to delve into personal and private responses—of African-Americans and whites, yankees and confederates, men and women, soldiers and civilians—investigating the story of the nation's first presidential assassination on a human scale. Read more about Gregory Distinguished Lecture: Martha Hodes
Doctoral Candidate James Wall awarded Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship Ph.D. candidate (history) James Wall has been awarded the Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year. This fellowship was established in 1911 by the authorization of a monetary gift to the University of Georgia from the Phelps-Stokes Fund. The fund was a bequest from the estate of Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes (1854-1909), a New York City philanthropist, for a recipient studying African-Americans and the adjustment to American civilization. Tags: Graduate Student News Read more about Doctoral Candidate James Wall awarded Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship