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Thomas McShea will defend his M.A. thesis, "The Cromwell Brothers: New York Confronts the Civil War" via remote conference with his graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Stephen Berry. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.

Amrish Nair will defend his M.A. thesis, "Confessional Frontiers: Conversion and Captivity in the Early Modern Mediterranean" via remote conference with his graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Ben Ehlers. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.

Chris Combs will defend her M.A. thesis, "Fruit Pie and the Making of a Queer Archive" with her graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Cassia Roth. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.

David C. Parker will defend his M.A. thesis," “Rebels in Sentiment” - Harry St. John Dixon, White Masculinity, Slavery, and Politics in Antebellum Mississippi and Reconstruction California" via remote conference with his graduate advisory committee. The Major Professor is Dr. Dan Rood. The university community is invited. If you wish to attend please contact the graduate program office in advance.

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.