All graduate students are invited to coffee and pastries with Dr. Todd Shepard, of Johns Hopkins University:

Thursday September 12,  9 AM

The meeting and the talk will be valuable to students interested in colonialism, decolonization, immigration, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and the aftermath of war. 

Dr. Shepard will give a talk at 12:30 called “Affirmative Action and the End of Empires,”room 101 LeConte Hall.

Join us October 10th at 6:30pm at The Globe as we discuss chapter five from Siobhan Somerville's Queering the Color Line. GRS reading meetings are open to everyone, the more the merrier!

For a copy of the reading, please contact Annelle Brunson (annelle.brunson25@uga.edu) or Lauren Titley (let94308@uga.edu).

Somerville, Siobhan B. “Queer to Myself As I Am to You.” In Queering the Color Line, 130–165, 2000. 

Join us September 19th at 6:30pm at The Globe as we discuss Sasha Turner's “The Nameless and the Forgotten: Maternal Grief, Sacred Protection, and the Archive of Slavery." GRS reading meetings are open to everyone, the more the merrier!

For a copy of the reading, please contact Annelle Brunson (annelle.brunson25@uga.edu) or Lauren Titley (let94308@uga.edu).

Learn about different study away programs here at UGA. Meet UGA students who have participated in study abroad and domestic study programs, and to talk directly with faculty directors and program representatives.

The History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) invites you to attend this professional development workshop. Kaylynn Washnock, Ph.D. and Ashton G. Ellett, Ph.D. from the Richard Russell Library for Political Research and studies will discuss careers in archives and public history.

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Hilary Green entitled, "The Hallowed Grounds Project: Slavery, Memory and Engagement at the University of Alabama."

Lawrence Wright will visit the University of Georgia to give the Department of History’s Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, “The Future of Terrorism.” 

The History of Capitalism Reading Group (for graduate students) will have its first meeting of the semester, 3:30 PM at The Globe, walking distance from UGA's North Campus. We will be reading two essays by cultural theorist Stuart Hall on the relationship between race and capital. For the readings or any questions contact: terrell.orr@uga.edu.

The event will be co-hosted with our friends in the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Reading Group.

Join us in celebrating the release of Peter Hoffer's latest book, The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975, (U Chicago Press, 2019).