The History Graduate Student is having a Book Sale!  April 15-16. Books of all genres will be available. All proceeds benefit the history graduate student association. This event will be held outdoors (rain cancels). The university community is invited.

Kenneth Roundy will defend his thesis entitled, "Chemical Solutions and Human Resistance: The Fight Against Coca Eradication in the Andes" in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The major professor is Dr. Shane Hamilton. Members of the university community are invited to attend. Please contact the graduate program at if you wish to attend, to ensure adequate seating.

The Jason Manthorne Memorial Annual Award will be presented to a deserving graduate student Rm. 221, LeConte Hall. Details TBA. Refreshments.

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.