Thursday, April 14, 2022 -

Claudio Saunt, Regents’ Professor and Russell Professor of American History in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2022 Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Saunt is one of 180 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists honored across 51 fields.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 -

Using StoryMapsJS, Monica Berg will present her historical research into the early years of tourism in Yellowstone National Park. She will take attendees back to the late 19th century, showing them what a typical tourist at this time could find themselves seeing and doing on a trip out West.

Monica Berg is a fourth-year History and German double major at the University of Georgia. She is also earning certificates in Museum Studies and Digital Humanities.

BLOOMINGTON, IN—The Organization of American Historians (OAH) today announced that Terrell James Orr, University of Georgia, is recipient of an OAH 2022 John Higham Research Fellowship, which is given annually to graduate students writing doctoral dissertations for a Ph.D. in American history. The Fellowship was announced during the OAH’s 2022 Conference on American History.

Can History Save the Georgia Coast?

Join us as a coterie of UGA history majors presents the results of their senior seminar research into the environmental histories of the Georgia coast. Their aim is not only to explore coastal history per se, but to look for a “usable past” as we face the future. What environmental challenges have plagued the coast in the past, and how did people deal with them? Did they deal with them successfully? Who benefited-- and who didn’t– as a result?

Posted from UGA Columns April 2022

2022 Charter Lecture Series

John Drake and Claudio Saunt

2021-2022 Regents' Professors

Two leading scholars at the University of Georgia will discuss their individual research programs and their collaboration at the intersection of history and infectious disease during the 2022 Charter Lecture.

Theodora Hamilton Huszagh Light will defend her M.A. thesis, "Forging Refuge between Shatter Zones: The Tocobaga Maroons of the Wacissa," in conference with her graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. James F. Brooks.

The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.

For History faculty and graduate students - 

The History Department will hold our annual departmental award ceremony and reception for history graduate students, staff and faculty at the Founders Memorial Garden on the University of Georgia's North Campus. You are welcome to bring a guest. 

It's our last department gathering for spring so please join us in celebrating our graduate students and spring MA and PhD graduates!

The HGSA is having an annual spring event just for history graduate students with their families!

BBQ and tie dye at Memorial Park.

Shirts, food, and beverages provided.

We'll be at Picnic Shelter 2, between the Pond and playground.

293 Gran Ellen Drive, ACC Transit Bus Route 14

RSVP: Ariana Persico