Join Historic Athens Tuesday at 12 pm @ the Lyndon House, where Dr. James F. Brooks, Gable Chair at UGA will discuss “Reclaiming Athens’ Indigenous Past & Present: Consultation & Collaboration,” including the recent installation at the Historic Athens Visitor Center.

Join us as our faculty provide a historical context on current crises in the news and answer questions on the history of events. History Behind the Headlines is not an academic debate or political event, but a talk of historical events which often help inform our understanding of todays news.

"History Behind the Headlines: The Gaza War and the Future of Palestine”

Free and open to the public. An FYO event. Pizza will be served.

Note: if all seats fill, the event will be closed to further attendees. We may not exceed seating capacity of the room.

Our October spotlight features Libia Jiménez Chávez.  Libia is a twentieth-century interdisciplinary historian studying migrations between Georgia and Latin America. More broadly, she is interested in transnational histories, processes of placemaking, and the relationship between race, belonging, and residency status. Through archival and oral histories, she is examining the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA/La Amnístia) to understand the resulting transformations that occurred within Georgia's immigrant communities. 

Join us Friday for an event co-hosted by LACSI and Romance Language—a book presentation featuring Dr. Alberto Villate-Isaza’s new book Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia. Comments by Dr. Cassia Roth, Department of History & LACSI.

Light refreshments will be served.

If you have ever heard an historian talk about the range of career outcomes available to History majors, you’ve probably heard the words “Wall Street” and “Fortune 500 Companies.” While most of your professors are well aware that this career path is open to you, very few of us can offer good, practical advice about how exactly you can leverage your History major into a career on Wall Street.

Register for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Homecoming Tailgate,

Join Dean Anna Stenport on the New College Lawn for Flying Biscuit Cafe, beverages, and pre-game fun!

Invitations were emailed to Franklin College alumni.

Click here to go to the event registration page.

Our September Spotlight on Inclusive Excellence features Ph.D. Candidate Bryant K. Barnes. Barnes has been awarded the Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship for 2023. This fellowship was established in 1911 by the authorization of a monetary gift to the University of Georgia from the Phelps-Stokes Fund. The fund was a bequest from the estate of Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes (1854-1909), a New York City philanthropist. The recipient must make a scientific study of the role of Black or African American individuals in American society.

Please join us for the inaugural "coffee chat," a new series of informal chats with female faculty about their experiences in the field of history. The first meeting with Dr. Akela Reason will be held on Wednesday October 18th @ 12:30 in room 201LeConte Hall, the Conference Room. Coffee and snacks will be provided! While this event was designed with the experience of women in the field in mind, we welcome any and all grad students. If you would, please RSVP to Theodora Light at theodora.light@uga.edu.

Graduate students are invited to an informal chat with UGA History alum and associate professor of history at Providence College, Dr. Pat Breen, who will talk about his experience on recent search committees at Providence.

Refreshments.