Lunchtime Time Machine: "How to Change Minds and Influence People, or, What do Chemistry, Cards, and Chocolate Have in Common?" The History Department's undergraduate lecture series presents Dr. Jennifer Palmer, Assistant Prof, History. Think you can find all you need to know on Wikipedia? Think again! And again... and again. This talk will take a look at how the world's first major encyclopedia not only disseminated information, it also made people think. Palmer's current research demonstrates that the presence of people of color in France shaped attitudes towards race, and shows how intimate relationships across racial lines disrupted racial assumptions. Read more about Lunchtime Time Machine: "How to Change Minds and Influence People, or, What do Chemistry, Cards, and Chocolate Have in Common?"
Guest Lecture: Tvrtko Jakovina "100 Years Since the Great War: Is Southeastern Europe Still Doomed by Gavrilo Princip's Bullets?" Read more about Guest Lecture: Tvrtko Jakovina
Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Jennifer Wunn Jennifer M. Wunn will defend her Doctoral dissertation entitled, "Jeder Treu Auf Seinem Posten": German Catholics and Kulturkampf Protests, in the conference rm., LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Laura Mason. 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. Read more about Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Jennifer Wunn
UGA @ Oxford Presents: Dr. Rowena E. Archer Rowena E. Archer, University of Oxford, History faculty presents a lecture entitled, "The Poet's Granddaughter, the Rise and Rise of Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk" (d. 1475). Dr. Archer is a lecturer in Medieval History at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on Late Medieval English History, particularly nobility, noblewomen and the gentry as well as in wills and funeral practices. She has most recently been working on a biography of Alice Chaucer, duchess of Suffolk. Rm. 101, LeConte Hall. Sponsored by UGA at Oxford. Read more about UGA @ Oxford Presents: Dr. Rowena E. Archer
History Graduate Student Association Book Sale An array of fiction and non-fiction used and new books will be for sale. Proceeds support the History Graduate Student Association. The sale will be held outside LeConte Hall (rain cancels). Read more about History Graduate Student Association Book Sale
Grace Elizabeth Hale: "Playtime: The Early Athens Sound" The Athens Music Project, a Willson Center Faculty Research Cluster, presents a talk by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Commonwealth Chair of American Studies (1997), professor of American Studies, and director of the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia. Dr. Hale received her B.A.('86) and M.A.('91) in History at UGA, and a Ph.D.('95) at Rutgers. Her fields and specialties include 20th century US cultural history, history of the US South, documentary studies, and sound studies. Read more about Grace Elizabeth Hale: "Playtime: The Early Athens Sound"
Career Resources for History Students Join us in Rm. 221 LeConte Hall to meet with UGA Career Consultant Kali DeWald. Learn about the many resources UGA has to offer history students, including mock job interviews, how to get help with your resume, how to find career employment, internships, etc. Refreshments - we'll have pizza for the first students here! Read more about Career Resources for History Students
Matt Hulbert wins dissertation fellowship Congratulations to Matt Hulbert, who has won a 2014-2015 Dissertation Fellowship from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. This is one of ten awards given annually to US-based and international scholars researching "violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects." Tags: Graduate Student News Read more about Matt Hulbert wins dissertation fellowship
Olsson wins two dissertation awards Tore Olsson, recent Ph.D., won two dissertation prizes this week: the 2014 Gilbert C. Fite Award for Best Dissertation from the Agricultural History Society and the Oxford University Press USA Dissertation Prize in International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Tags: Alumni News Read more about Olsson wins two dissertation awards
Steve Soper wins book award Steve Soper's book, Building a Civil Society, took First Prize in the 18th-19th century category of the American Association of Italian Studies Book Award. Tags: Faculty and Staff News Read more about Steve Soper wins book award