Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers, associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss her book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale U Press, 2020).

This talk will occur remotely via Zoom. 

Dr. Tamara Walker will join us to discuss her most recent book, Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima (Cambridge, 2017).

The School of Public and International Affairs invites you to our annual Constitution Day lecture in celebration of the day that Constitutional Convention representatives in Philadelphia completed and signed the United States Constitution in 1787.

This will be the first virtual meeting for 2020-21 of the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group. Topics and discussion will vary based on collaborative input from history graduate students. Check back for updates and future events!

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

Fall 2020 classes begin. Drop/Add August 20 - 26.

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us on Friday, September 18 at 3:30 PM to discuss the paper “Two Coffee Colonies: Environment, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery in Suriname and St. Domingue, 1750-1790” with its author, Rafael Marquese, Professor in the Department of History at the Universidade de São Paulo.

This will be the first meeting for 2020-21 of the History of Capitalism Reading Group. The readings will be precirculated based on interest to graduate students in the department who would like to attend the Zoom call. Readings will vary temporally and geographically, and will include new works from UGA scholars, first books, historiographical articles and/or works of theoretical significance to what has become a vibrant field of historical inquiry. Updates coming soon.

Email rsb87526@uga.edu for an invitation link.

Dr. Lia Bascomb, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies, Georgia State University, will discuss her book In Plenty and in Time of Need: Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity (Rutgers U Press, 2019).