This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Kevin Jones. Professor Jones teaches courses in the history of the Middle East, and he is currently writing a book on the political functions of poetry in Iraq between the first and second world wars.

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

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Brian Drake. Professor Drake teaches the second half of the U.S. history survey and courses in environmental history. His recent book, Loving Nature, Fearing the State, focuses on the relationship of the postwar American environmental movement to postwar politics and ideology.

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

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Jim Cobb. Professor Cobb has written widely on the interaction between economy, society, and culture in the American South, and you’ll find him in the Flagpole as the columnist behind Cobbloviate.

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

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Susan Mattern. Professor Mattern’s most recent book, The Prince of Medicine, is a social-historical biography of the ancient physician Galen, and she is currently working on a global history of menopause. She teaches courses in the history of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, marriage, disease, medicine, women, and law.

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

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.