The History Department will hold our annual departmental award ceremony and reception for history graduate students, staff and faculty at Demosthenian Hall. BBQ Dinner will be provided(with vegetarian alternative). History faculty, staff, MA and PhD students should RSVP to history@uga.edu by April 15, 2017.

Women’s History Month –

Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series Lecture

"Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History: Georgia Women Shape the 20th Century," Kathleen Clark, an associate professor in the Department of History. Contact: Terri Hatfield 706-542-2846

Free, Open to the Public, First Year Odyssey Approved

Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies

Luke Manget will take his oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. John Inscoe. 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.

Kylie Hulbert will defend her dissertation entitled, "“Vigorous and Bold Operations”: The Times and Lives of Privateers in the Atlantic World during the American Revolution" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Peter Hoffer. 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.

David Blackmon will present his talk Thursday at UGA's Dean Rusk Hall.  He spent more than two decades as a daily newspaper reporter and bureau chief and won his first Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal staff's breaking news coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law and a professor of history at Harvard University, will present "‘The Civil Rights Queen': Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America."

"Indigenous Feminist Narratives," Andrea Smith, an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California Riverside.

Join the Latin American Sustainable Agriculture Initiative for a screening of Food Chains. This exposé documents the human cost of food by focusing on the lives of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group of Florida farmworkers, that battle the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their Fair Food program.

After the screening, a panel of discussants will talk about their research and lives as it relates to this important film. Discussants include:

The Department of History welcomes newly accepted students for 2020-21 to the graduate program.

By Invitation only. RSVP required.

The Workshop in the History and Geography of Food, Place, and Power will host Heather Paxson, who is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Paxson will present her paper "Regulating Microbial Ecologies: Policy and Practice in Artisanal Cheesemaking." Download a copy of the paper at the FPP website.