Faculty at the University of Georgia are actively engaged in cutting-edge work in transnational history.

Our faculty pursue studies in the history of religious beliefs, behaviours, and institutions in a variety of areas - Latin American history, African American, European, and in a cross-cultural perspective.

Studies of politics, law, and political economy--long central to the discipline of history--have been rejuvenated in recent years by the influence of cultural and social history and  interdisciplinary interactions with political science, economics, and law. Our faculty and graduate students are among the nation's leading practitioners in what is sometimes called the "new political history," exploring political ideologies, practices, and structures in a wide range of time periods and places.

The History Department is a central component of UGA's Institute of Native American Studies (INAS). The INAS offers a host of interdisciplinary courses in the departments of anthropology, english, history, religion, and others that lead to a graduate certificate in Native American Studies. With students and faculty drawn from around the university, the INAS is the hub of a vibrant community. Each semester, the institute also hosts leading scholars from around the country, and it has sponsored several conferences, including the 2008 Native American/Indigenous Studies Conference.