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

History Department Drop-by lunch for our History Graduate students (Catering by Heirloom Café, Athens)

*For history grad students only. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions (history@uga.edu).

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | 200, 201 Conference Room and faculty lounge

A film screening and discussion on Russia’s authoritarian turn.

For history faculty. Date to be confirmed.

POSTPONED due to unforeseeable circumstances. Event will be rescheduled, please check back.

Speaker Biography: Felty is a graduate of Louisiana State University and the University of Tulsa Law School. He currently practices Immigration Law in Littleton, Colorado.

Event Sponsors: Department of History, Russell Library, and the Center on Human Trafficking Research and Outreach

Rolando Rodriguez will defend his M.A. thesis, "'It tends to set the price of all other things': The Political Economy of Manioc in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Bahia," in conference with his graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Cassia Roth.

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