Gordon Purcell will defend his M.A. thesis, "The Exoticism of Italy in the British Travel Writer's Imagination, 1766-1810", in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Steven Soper. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office to ensure adequate seating.

Dr. Ursula Prutsch will present a lecture, “The Ammunition King Fritz Mandl: How an Austrian Emigrant of Jewish Origin was Turned into an Argentine Nazi.”  Dr. Prutsch is Professor of American Cultural Studies at The Amerika-Institut at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich, Germany).

Please join us as Bart Elmore, Environmental Historian at the Ohio State University, presents the Capitalists Souths, Graduate Student Conference Keynote lecture: "Countryside Capitalism: How Businesses from the American South Transformed Global Economies and Ecosystems in the 20th Century"

Louise Milone will take oral comprehensive examinations via Zoom. Members of the university community are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in history for Zoom registration details.

UGA Graduate Magazine (Winter 2020) has a wonderful article on M.A. student Sarah Anderson-

Over the Moon: By: Cynthia Adams | Photos By: Nancy Evelyn.

Join us as Franklin Visiting Scholar Holly Pinheiro presents a talk about his forthcoming book on Post-Civil War African American Family Life in Philadelphia.

This event is free and open to the public.

Jared Asser will take his oral comprehensive examinations in the Conference Room, LeConte Hall. The Major Professor is Dr. Scott Reynolds Nelson. All members of the university community are invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in history to ensure adequate seating.

Institute for Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series Lecture, featuring Dr. Jennifer Palmer, Associate Professor, history.

Dr. Palmer is a historian of Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic, and teaches courses about Europe, the Atlantic world, women and gender, race, and pirates.  She is also the coordinator for the History and Gender Workshop.

Please join us for the annual Michael L. Thurmond lecture series. This year’s lecturer is Dr. Maurice C. Daniels, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of the University of Georgia School of Social Work.

His new book, Ground Crew, examines the fight to end segregation at Georgia State.

With very special guest, Ms. Mary Frances Early. UGA’s first African American graduate; the university is renaming the College of Education in her honor.

Broderick Flanigan, local artist and historian, presents a tour of historic Black Athens. The tour is now full and no additional reservations are being accepted.

A celebration of Black History Month event, sponsored by the Department of History.