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Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Samuel McGuire

Samuel  McGuire will defend his dissertation entitled, "East Tennessee's Grand Army: Union Veterans Confront Race, Reconciliation, and Civil War Memory, 1884-1913" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. John Inscoe. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at history@uga.edu if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Jennifer Palmer receives Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Assistant Professor of History Jennifer Palmer is one of three University of Georgia faculty members to receive this year's Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the university's highest early career teaching honor.

The 2015 Russell Award winners are:

• Peter Jutras, an associate professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences' Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

• Andrew Owsiak, an assistant professor of international affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs.

Henry Cowles — The Gilded Age of Mind and Brain

Henry Cowles is an Assistant Professor at Yale University. He writes and teaches the history of the human sciences and scientific medicine in the modern United States. His current book project is a history of American attempts to locate the cultural authority of the scientific method in the functional anatomy of the human brain, and this lecture will explore how today’s commonplace assumptions about cognition and discovery — how we think we think — were part of the emergence of scientific psychology in the nineteenth century.

Workshop with Sarah Milov, "Tobacco Leaf as Fig Leaf"



The Global Capitalism Initative will be workshopping a paper by Dr. Sarah Milov from the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, titled "Tobacco Leaf as Fig Leaf: The Tobacco Growers' Information Committee" on Thursday, March 26th at 12:30 in rm 320 of LeConte Hall. The paper will be precirculated and lunch will be provided.  If you would like to participate in the workshop, please email a request for the paper to capitalism@uga.edu. We hope to see many of you there! 

 

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