Cassia Roth, Assistant Professor of History & Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia, recently won the Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize in Latin American History from the Southern Historical Association for her book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford UP, 2020).

All students are invited to attend a brief information session about the 2022 Washington Summer Program in Public History to be held on Wednesday, December 8th at 2:00 pm via Zoom. Interested students should email Dr. Reason at areason@uga.edu for the Zoom link. 

Note: the priority deadline for applications has been extended to December 31!

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Doctoral student Devin Jerome talked to Timothy Yang recently about his new book, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan (Cornell University Press, 2021).

Tell us about your new book and the research behind it:

Happy Thanksgiving!

No classes Nov. 27 - 29.

UGA offices are closed Nov. 28 - 29.

Spring 2023 students may submit on-line course evaluations for history classes Monday, April 24 through Tuesday May 2, 2023.

Student Login - https://webapps.franklin.uga.edu/evaluation/

Note: Tuesday, May 2 (Reading Day) is the last day to submit on-line course evaluations for history classes.

Join us for an information session about the 2022 Washington Summer Program in Public History.

Meet Elizabeth Charles -

Claudio Saunt, Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History, has been awarded the 18th annual Ridenhour Book Prize for his widely celebrated work, Unworthy Republic: The dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian Territory.

Read the article by Alan Flurry here - https://t.uga.edu/7tx

Digital libraries of primary sources enrich the understanding of the sheer diversity of the American experience. In anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, historian Catherine Kerrison will address the broad historical and intellectual significance of curated open digital resources, which allow both scholars and an informed public to challenge the narratives of those who would erase the complexity of our early national history.

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Korea's Place in a World of Scientific Agriculture," with its author, Holly Stephens, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh.

The draft paper and Zoom link will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. Those not on the listserv who are interested in attending can contact Scott Nelson for a copy of the paper: srnelson@uga.edu.