The history department is hosting a virtual history open house for newly admitted graduate students!

Our online guests are invited to attend and virtually interact with current graduate students and faculty in history for a fun, and casual event. We will have  several sessions, some social, some informational, to help introduce newly admitted graduate students to our graduate faculty and current grad students. Join us and meet the department!

Registration details pending - all new admits will receive an invite soon.

Congratulations to Dr. Cassia Roth for her recently announced NEH Fellowship, for research on "Enslaved Women, Reproduction, and the Gradual End of Slavery in Nineteenth-century Brazil."

Roth is featured in January news from the University of Georgia's Willson Center, in "Where am I?" See the video link below.

From the Wilson Center -

The History Department's undergraduate lecture series presents Dr. Stephen Mihm, Associate professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, History who discusses the question "Why are apples America's favorite fruit?".

The History Department's undergraduate lecture series presents Dr. Susan Mattern, Distinguished Research Professor, History who will discuss "Did menopause exist before the modern era?"

The History Department's Lunchtime Time Machine undergraduate talk series presents Sara Small, a Master's student in history, who will discuss the question, "Should you have a plantation wedding?"

Reservations are required. To reserve your virtual space, please send an email from your UGA email address with your name to Ms. Cartwright in history, at cilla71@uga.edu. Students of all majors are invited. This is an FYO event.

The History Department's undergraduate lecture series presents Dr. Jamie Kreiner, Associate Professor and Department Head, History who will give a talk on "How did pigs mess with the Middle Ages?"

11:00 AM -1:00 PM for a virtual roundtable on Slavery, Race, and Gradual Freedom in the Atlantic World.

This event is now full.

Dr. Yesenia Barragan, assistant professor in the Department of History, Rutgers University, will discuss her forthcoming book Freedom’s Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific (Cambridge, 2021).

Dr. Erika Edwards, Associate Professor in history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will discuss her book Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic (Alabama UP, 2020).

Graduate students in history who attend will receive a copy of the book in advance. A short presentation about the book will be followed by a Q and A session and general conversation.

For history faculty