Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss current research by Devin Jerome, a doctoral student in history at the University of Georgia. (Topic TBA).

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.

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Coal-Fired Capitalism: Railroaders, Miners and the Long Red Summer In Appalachian Kentucky” with its author, Matthew O'Neal, a doctoral student in history at the University of Georgia.

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.

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Natural Risk: An Environmental History of West Texas Oil and The Rise of Sun Belt Texas” with its author, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, assistant professor of environmental history at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Wageless Life on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 1880-1915” with its author, Emma Teitelman, Mellon Research Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge.

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.

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Lakes of Sacrifice: Brazilian Ethanol, Development, and Water Pollution” with its author, Jennifer Eaglin, assistant professor of environmental history/sustainability at the Ohio State University.

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.

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Building an Ideational and Institutional Architecture For Africa's Agricultural Transformation” with its author, Dr. Rachel Schurman, Sociology and Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota.

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.

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper “Rural Development and Its Discontents: Germany, China, and the Rockefeller Foundation in the Interwar Period” with its author, Shellen Xiao Wu, Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville..

New this Year - Virtual Tables!

Join Us

All students are invited to attend the virtual Discovery Showcase for Majors, Minors, Certificate Programs and Double Dawgs Pathway program. The Discovery Showcase seeks to guide students on their major and career paths at UGA.

Congratulations to Claudio Saunt, whose book Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (WW Norton, 2020) is a National Book Awards Finalist for Nonfiction. The National Book Awards will be announced November 18, 2020.

A virtual meeting for the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group. Topics and discussion will vary based on collaborative input from history graduate students. 

Please contact Ally Velez or Valerie McLaurin for more information and an invitation link.