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.

Bea Burton will take oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Stephen Berry. 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.

The University of Georgia's Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the UGA Libraries and the UGA Press, will launch its new Digital Humanities Lab as part of DIGI@UGA Day. For more information click here.

Ruth Davis will defend her thesis entitled, "Red-Blooded Americans: Racial Identity and the Mexican American Crusade for Equal Education, 1924-1946" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Pamela Voekel. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

Students will present their research in rapid-fire presentations. Join us to support our graduate students and the department. Doctoral Student Andrew Fialka (history) is one of the 10 finalists!

Victoria Do will take her oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch. All members of the university faculty are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance at history@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and legal scholar Edward Larson will return to the University of Georgia to deliver the Charter Lecture titled "George Washington and America's Second Revolution." Larson taught at UGA for two decades, serving as chair of the history department as well as the Richard B. Russell Professor of American History and holder of the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Monthly faculty meeting for faculty members in history. The meeting this month will be in Rm. 221.