Early American History

Department of History
Graduate Studies

The University of Georgia History Department is one of the best places in the country to study early American history at both the M.A. and the Ph.D. levels. Its prize-winning historians offer courses each semester in the field; their broad topical and chronological range covers African-American, agrarian, cultural, economic, intellectual, legal, religious, and ethno-history. The University of Georgia's libraries have first-rate research collections, including Early American imprints and a range of early American newspapers. Financial assistance is available.

THE FACULTY

Peter C. Hoffer
(Ph.D. Harvard 1970; Distinguished Research Professor) Peter Hoffer's special fields of interest are early American history and legal history. Vita.
Allan Kulikoff
(Ph.D. Brandeis 1976; Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities.) Allan Kulikoff teaches courses in Southern History, Early American History, and agrarian history.Vita.

Claudio Saunt
(Ph.D. Duke 1996, Associate Professor of history) Claudio Saunt works in Native American and Early American history. Vita.

Michael P. Winship
(Ph.D. Cornell 1992; Professor of History) colonial America; religious and cultural history of early New England.


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