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The University of Georgia History Department offers an excellent
opportunity to study and research African American history at the
M.A. and Ph.D. levels with outstanding, prize winning historians.
The faculty's expertise and research interests span the entire breadth
of African American history from slavery in the colonial period
to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Financial aid is available.
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| Kathleen
Clark(Ph.D. Yale; Assistant Professor) U.S. 19th and 20th Century;
women's history; the American South. She is working on a monograph
entitled, "History is No Fossil Remains: Race, Gender, and the
Politics of Memory in the South, 1863-1913." |
| John
C. Inscoe (Ph.D. North Carolina 1985; Professor), Southern history
and race relations; author of Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional
Crisis in Western North Carolina (1989) and co-author of The Heart
of Confederate Appalachia: The Civil War in Western North Carolina
(2000), along with numerous edited volumes, including Georgia in Black
and White: Explorations in the Race Relations of a Southern State,
1865-1950 (1994) and Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from
Slavery to Segregation (2001). |
| Allan
Kulikoff (Ph.D. Brandeis 1976; Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor
in the Humanities) Southern History, Early American History, and agrarian
history. Publications include Tobacco and Slaves: The Development
of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake 1680-1800 (1986, winner
of the AHA's Dunning Prize and the SHA's Simkins Award); The Agrarian
Origins of American Capitalism (1992); and From British Peasants
to Colonial American Farmers (2000). |
| Chana
Kai Lee (Ph.D. UCLA 1993; Associate Professor) 20th Century U.S.
women's history and African-American history. She is the author of
For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (1999), winner
of the Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women
Historian. She is currently working on a collection of essays about
historical memory, black feminism and women's sexualities. |
| Diane
Batts Morrow (Ph.D. Georgia 1996; Assistant Professor) multicultural
history and African American history. She is the author of Persons
of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence,
1828-1860 (2002). |
| Robert
A. Pratt (Ph.D. Virginia 1987; Associate Professor) 20th century
U.S. history, African-American and Southern history. He is the author
of The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia,
1954-1989 (1992), winner, Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers
Center for the Study of Human Rights, and We Shall Not Be Moved:
Desegregation at the University of Georgia (2002). |
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