Dr. Sarah Case, Editor of The Public Historian, will offer a workshop on writing for a wide array of audiences beyond the academy. This discussion, aimed primarily at scholars with an interest in public-facing history, will focus on how to approach various styles of writing and publishing: scholarly public history articles; reviews; blogs; and op-eds.

Questions? Contact Dr. James Brooks James.Brooks@uga.edu

Dr. Kalyani Ramnath is a historian of modern South Asia, researching and teaching legal history, histories of migration and displacement, transnational and global history, and questions of archival method. 

Date of conferral of Summer 2023 degrees is August 7. There is no summer commencement ceremony. For commencement information, go to https://commencement.uga.edu/.

Undergraduates applying for summer by the graduation application deadline for spring/summer are eligible to participate in the spring undergraduate commencement ceremony in May and will appear in the spring/summer commencement program except students with FERPA restrictions.

Each month our history faculty present some intriguing research topics to discuss in an informal setting over lunch. Undergraduate students of all disciplines are welcome, and the public is invited to attend.

For more information on the upcoming talks, please go to the event listing on our website, and select an event for more information.

Free pizza, free history!

Our lunchtime Time Machine talks are also FYO events.

For history faculty. 

For history faculty - department writing plan meeting for WIP program.

A history talk presented by Anthony Festa, the winner of our graduate student Lunchtime Time Machine competition.

Festa will present his research in answer of the query, "How did a crazy German guy almost restore the Mongol Empire in the 20th century?"

Free Admission. Free history. Free pizza for lunch!

All majors are welcome. Open to the public.

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Doctoral student Bryant Barnes, who presents the question, "How did a tiny man with an upset tummy terrify southern Democrats after the Civil War?"

Barnes studies interracial political movements in the Gilded Age US South. More specifically, he researches the connections between capitalism and the rise of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement. Barnes was a graduate school GREAT Fellow and is a recipient of the Graduate School's Phelps-Stokes Fellowship award for 2023-24.

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Kevin Jones, who presents the question, "How did oil wealth make the people of Iraq poorer?"

Professor Jones teaches courses in the history of the Middle East, and he is currently writing a book on the political functions of poetry in Iraq between the first and second world wars. He currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, and the faculty advisor to Phi Alpha Theta, the UGA chapter of the National History Honor Society.

This event has unavoidable been canceled. Join us next month for the April Lunchtime Time Machine with Dr. Jones!