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. 

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.

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.

"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.

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.