Join us as we invite Jimmie Brown, PhD Student, to present "'But How Are You Going to Pay for It?': The State Desires, Composition, and Economic Activity of the Reconstruction Era Georgia General Assembly" before his History Department peers. The essay will be circulated in advance of the workshop, and attendees are expected to have read the paper beforehand.  

Charles (Charlie) Dew is a fourth-year history and advertising honors student at the University of Georgia who is exploring sports media careers. He is involved with the university’s Talking Dog advertising agency as a production specialist and covers sports for the Gwinnett Daily Post as a freelancer. He is interested in working in sports writing, production, art direction and graphic design. In addition to his two majors, Charlie is completing two certificate programs, Museum Studies, and Sports Media.

If you've followed our history news at all, you've probably discovered the Athens Historical Society's Athens Film Project. A number of UGA students, faculty, and alumni have been involved in this Athens Historical Society project, the goal being to create films on Athens history for local 11th grade U.S.

Last spring, doctoral student Alexander "Alex" Bowen was awarded the second annual W. Todd Groce Fellowship in History from the Georgia Historical Society and in May he traveled to Savannah to start his work in their archives for the summer. Doctoral students Erleen Ellis and Caroline Alt met with Alex recently to find out more about the fellowship.

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. 

For history graduate students -

You’re invited to a history-specific workshop for grad students on finding grants through Pivot, a library database. This will be a great resource for anyone interested in applying for research and writing grants at any stage of the program, from first-year MA or PhD students through postdocs.  

The workshop will be conducted by librarian Elizabeth Weeks, who is very familiar with grant-finding databases. 

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.

W. Cole Wicker will take his oral comprehensive examinations October 23. The Major Professor is Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch.  If you wish to attend the presentation in person, please contact the graduate program office in history at history@uga.edu to ensure adequate seating.