Hispanic Heritage Month guest lecture: New Histories of the Latino South: A Conversation with Cecilia Márquez and Sarah McNamara

Hispanic Heritage Month guest lecture, "New Histories of the Latino South: A Conversation with Cecilia Márquez and Sarah McNamara".

Cecilia Márquez is the Hunt Family Assistant Professor in History and previously taught Latino/a Studies at New York University. She earned her MA and PhD in American History at the University of Virginia.

Dirty History presents Kris Lane: Cash for Your Gold! Precious Metals, the Environment, & Early Modernity

Join us for a talk by Dr. Kris Lane, "Cash for Your Gold! Precious Metals, the Environment, & Early Modernity." A historian of early modern mining, Kris Lane revisits precious metals extraction and circulation in light of new approaches to materialism and environmental degradation.

Dirty History Workshop: Kris Lane

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper (TBA) with its author, Kris Lane.

The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu.

Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism.

Dirty History Workshop: Dr. Ashton Merck

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Cooperation, Collusion, and the Chicken Cartels" with its author.

The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu.

Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism.

Dirty History Workshop: Jessie Luna

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper (TBA) with its author, Jessie Luna.

The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu.

Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism.

Dirty History Workshop: Chad Montrie

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper (TBA) with its author, Chad Montrie.

The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu.

Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism.

Book Talk - The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond

Join us for a book talk with alum Dr. Marvin Chiles, Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University. Chiles will discuss his research and new book, The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond (2023, University of Virginia Press).

Free and open to the public. Refreshments from Big City Bread.

This is an FYO event.

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This presentation is a feature of our Black History Month calendar of events.

Spotlight on Inclusive Excellence: Zain Tahir Ali

This month, the History department recognizes Zain Tahir Ali for our DEI Spotlight feature.

A third year History major and honors student with a minor in Biology, Zain Ali is a recent recipient of the 2023 Hostilo Family Scholarship. Nominated by Dr. Kalyani Ramnath, the scholarship is presented to a student from a population that has been historically disadvantaged within the academic field of history. Zain's overall academic excellence, and his research on evacuee property law following the Partition of India, are especially noteworthy.