Congratulations to doctoral candidate Theodora (Tedi) Light on the successful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation entitled ""On the Road to Rebel”: Indigenous Maroons in Cuba and Florida, 1500-1739." Light is currently working as adjunct faculty at the University of South Carolina - Beaufort, where she is teaching the Early America survey (REACH Act) course. Her research was supported this year by the Gregory research fellowship in history.

As the sun began to set on Wednesday October 8th, members of the new graduate student cohort gathered outside of The Foundry in downtown Athens for an extra special night: a tour with Athens Haunted History. 

UGA history alum Brandon Stanton is in the news again! Read the Smithsonian Magazine article on his "Dear New York" installation at Grand Central Station, New York City.

Never one to shy away from more work, Christian Poe is a senior in his fourth year at the University of Georgia triple-majoring in History, International Affairs, and Spanish with a minor in Aerospace Studies. He is a cadet in Air Force ROTC and a member of the Georgia Commitment Scholars Executive Board. This past summer, he studied abroad in Spain, contributing to his Spanish major, and this summer he plans to study away once more to finish his history coursework. After graduating in 2026, Chris will commission into the U.S.

Our spotlight this month is turned on Associate Professor of history Oscar Chamosa and his history students, with special thanks to the Athens Historical Society. HIST 3140/H class in U.S. Latinx History collaborated up with the Athens Historical Society to celebrate Latinx heritage with a special poster project. The poster is currently on display for a limited time in the History Department.

Meet new doctoral student Erleen Ellis! Ellis joined our graduate program this year with an Osborne Graduate Fellowship in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, which supports outstanding students in graduate studies. She will be working under the guidance of Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch, Ellis aims to fully flesh out connections between labor organizing and social mobilization for Black and Brown women in the southern United States in the context of the global oppression of subaltern labor.

 The Georgia Historical Society (GHS) has announced that Emily McClatchey has been awarded the 2025 John C. Inscoe Award for the best article published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly (GHQ) in 2024. Her article, “The House that Harry Stephens Built: How an Emancipated Family's Home was Hijacked for the Lost Cause,” was featured in GHQ Vol. 108, No. 1....

Congratulations and welcome to the History Department, doctoral student Matthew Powell!

Keira Hallauer (class of ’28) entered UGA already knowing her career interests, although she had no idea of the expansive choices available to her once enrolled. In high school, history was one of her favorite subjects, and she came to have a sense that she might want to go into academia for a career, so decided to pursue a discipline she was passionate about. She explained that, 

Since our first Lunchtime Time Machine in 2016, our history faculty has brought history to light for our students and community at our popular Lunchtime Time Machine talks. Faculty from a variety of historical fields - Women's studies, African American history, Asian studies, Latin American and Latinx history and much more, feature topics as varied as How did Roman toilets work? To headier subjects like. Where does humanity fit into the universe? Our award-winning faculty bring forth little known facts and sometimes, humor to evoke thought and curiosity about history and its relevance.