This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Steve Soper. Professor Soper teaches the second half of the western civ survey and courses on modern Europe, Italy, and microhistory. He is working on a new book about political prisoners in southern Italy on the eve of Italian unification.  

Students of all majors are welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.

Recent doctoral graduate Keri Leigh Merritt won the 2015 M.E. Bradford Dissertation Award from the St. George Tucker Society for the best dissertation on the US South!

Brent Buck, a third-year Honors student from Columbus majoring in international affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs and history in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, will study Modern Standard Arabic and the Moroccan dialect at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez, Morocco, before continuing his coursework at the Qalam wa Lawh Center for Arabic Studies in Rabat, also in Morocco.  Excerpt from The Franklin College Chronicle May, 1, 2015.

Doctoral candidate Luke Manget has recently been awarded a research fellowship from the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Delaware to study the role of the Shakers as pioneers in the pharmaceutical industry.  At Winterthur, Research Fellows live on the museum grounds while conducting research at the museum and library.



This fellowship is supported by the NEH Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions.





 

Richard Menke and Montgomery Wolf (history), in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and Brock Woodson and Siddharth Savadatti, in the College of Engineering, were honored with the 2015 Creative Teaching Awards during the Faculty Recognition Banquet at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on April 13. The award recipients were recognized "for excellence in developing and implementing creative teaching strategies to improve student learning."

Brandon Munda will defend his thesis entitled, "A War of Pen and Sword: The English Intelligence Apparatus in the War of the Spanish Succession" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Benjamin Ehlers. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Bea Burton will take oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Stephen Berry. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office at history@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating.

The University of Georgia's Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the UGA Libraries and the UGA Press, will launch its new Digital Humanities Lab as part of DIGI@UGA Day. For more information click here.

Ruth Davis will defend her thesis entitled, "Red-Blooded Americans: Racial Identity and the Mexican American Crusade for Equal Education, 1924-1946" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Pamela Voekel. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Students will present their research in rapid-fire presentations. Join us to support our graduate students and the department. Doctoral Student Andrew Fialka (history) is one of the 10 finalists!