The University of Georgia Department of History offers the B.A., M.A.,and Ph.D. degrees. Its faculty have published numerous books, articles and reviews on subjects ranging from early American and African-American history to African history, Brazil to Japan, ancient Europe to the modern South, science to religion, and popular culture to foreign policy. Faculty members have won numerous teaching and scholarly awards, including Professor Edward J. Larson's 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History and Eve Troutt-Powell's 2003 MacArthur Foundation's "Genius" Award.

(Ph.D. North Carolina, 2000; Assistant Professor of History) antebellum and Civil War America; U.S. South; gender, family, and culture. Stephen Berry's teaching and writing focus on the Civil War as a lived experience. He is interested in how men and women reacted to, were changed by, and endured after, the conflict reshaped their lives. He is the author of All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South (Oxford, 2003) and House of Abraham: Lincoln & the Todds, A Family Divided by War (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). He is also the editor of Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860 (Georgia, 2007). Click here to see the vita of Professor Berry.

(PhD. North Carolina 2003) His current research deals with race relations and politics of folklore in rural Argentina. His teaching interest includes Human Rights, Popular Culture, and Popular Religion in Latin America.

Kathleen Clark
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(Ph.D. Yale; Associate Professor of History) U.S. 19th and 20th Century; women's history; the American South. Kathleen Clark is the author of Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the American South and has published articles on Emancipaton Day and July 4th celebrations. Her current research focuses on early 20th century southern women writers and gender and political culture in the early twentieth-century South.

James C. Cobb
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( Ph.D. Georgia 1975; Spalding Distinguished Professor of History) Jim Cobb teaches courses in southern history and culture. A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Cobb has written widely on the interaction between economy, society and culture in the American South. His books include The Selling of The South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990 (Illinois, 1993), and The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (Oxford , 1992). His most recent book,  Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity, was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. Click here to see the vita of Professor Cobb. To read some of his work, check out http://cobbloviate.com.

Benjamin G. Ehlers
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(Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1999; Associate Professor of History) early modern Europe; Hapsburg Spain; religious history. Benjamin Ehlers is the author of Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Click here to see the vita of Professor Ehlers.

(Ph.D. Stanford 1989; Professor of History, Instructional Coordinator, and Associate Head) early Japan; Japanese military institutions and traditions. Author of Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan (Stanford U Press, 1992), Legacies of the Sword: the Kashima Shinryu & Samurai Martial Culture (U of Hawaii P, 1997), and Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan (Routledge, 2004).  Professor Friday's current book project is called The First Samurai: Taira Masakado & His World  (John Wiley & Sons). Click here to see the vita of Professor Friday.
 

(Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005; Assistant Professor of History). Shane Hamilton teaches courses in twentieth-century American history, agriculture and rural life, and the history of technology. His book, Trucking Country: Agribusiness and the Rural Assault on Economic Liberalism in Twentieth-Century America, will be published in 2008 by Princeton University Press. He has published articles and reviews in Agricultural History, Business History Review, Reviews in American History, and Technology and Culture. His second book project, "Supermarket USA: Food, Technology, and Power in the American Century," has been funded by a National Science Foundation Scholar's Award. Click here to see the vita or web site of Professor Hamilton.

Peter Charles Hoffer
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Allan Kulikoff
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(Ph.D. Brandeis 1976; Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities.) Allan Kulikoff teaches courses in 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). He is working on three books: "Reinventing Early American History" (the class dimension of early America); "The Making of the American Yeoman Class" (colonial farmer class identity); and "The Farmer's Revolution." Kulikoff is also coordinating the Georgia Workshop Series on Early American History. Click here to see the vita of Professor Kulikoff.

Michael Kwass
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(Ph.D. Michigan 1994; Associate Professor of History) Michael Kwass teaches classes on Old Regime and Revolutionary France, the Enlightenment, and the history of modern consumption. Since publishing Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberte', Egalite', Fiscalite' (Cambridge University Press, 2000), for which he received the David Pinkney prize, Kwass has been working on consumer culture in the age of Enlightenment.  His articles on consumption have appeared in The American Historical Review, Representations, Eighteenth-Century Studies and elsewhere.  He is currently writing a book on smuggling and the politics of consumption in eighteenth-century Europe.  Click here to see the vita of Professor Kwass.

Edward J. Larson
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(Ph.D. Wisconsin-Madison 1984, J.D. Harvard 1979; Richard B. Russell Professor of American History and Talmadge Professor of Law.) Ed Larson teaches courses in the history of science with a reserved specialty in 19th and 20th-century biology and genetics. He is the recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History. He holds a joint appointment in the University's law school, where he teaches science and health law. He is the author of five books: Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution (Oxford Univ. Press, 1989); Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995); Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (Basic Books, 1997); and Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands (Basic Books, 2001). His latest book is Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Idea (Modern Library, 2004). Click here to see the vita of Professor Larson. A more detailed biography is also available here.

(Ph.D., UCLA, 1993; Associate Professor of History and the Institute for African American Studies) African American, U.S. Women’s, 20th Century U.S. Lee is author of  For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Illinois, 1999), which won the Willie Lee Rose Prize awarded by the Southern Association of Women Historians and the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians. Her Rosa Parks: A Movement, A Life is under contract to Pearson-Longman.

Ari Daniel Levine
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(Ph.D. Columbia 2002; Assistant Professor of History) Ari Daniel Levine specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern China, from 800 to 1600. He has written two chapters for volume 5 of the Cambridge History of China, scheduled for publication in 2007. His book Superior Men and Petty Men: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China, 1044-1104 is under contract with University of Hawaii Press. He is currently working on a second book project on urban space and cultural memory in Song-dynasty Kaifeng. Click here to see the vita of Professor Levine.

Laura Mason
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(Ph.D. Yale 1995; Associate Professor of History.) Susan Mattern-Parkes teaches courses in the social and cultural history of ancient Greece and Rome. She is the author of Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate (University of California, 1999; now in paperback). She has co-written a textbook, The Ancient Mediterranean World from the Stone Age to A.D. 600 (Oxford University Press, 2004), and has published articles on Roman imperialism and medicine in the Roman period. She is now working on a study of the medical practice of the ancient physician Galen, based on his stories about his patients, and has received grant support from the NIH for this project. Click here to see the vita of Professor Mattern-Parkes.

(Ph.D., Yale University, 2006; Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies) Bethany Moreton comes to UGA from a year as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of several articles on globalization, conservative Christianity, and the feminization of work in the service economy. Her dissertation won Yale's university-wide Theron Rockwell Field Prize; the Southern Historical Association's C. Vann Woodward Prize; the Business History Conference's Herman E. Krooss Prize; and the Labor and Employment Relations Association's Kochan-Sleigh award; it was also selected the best dissertation in the humanities or fine arts by the Yale graduate school for a two-year period. A book based on that work, tentatively entitled Everyday Values: Wal-Mart and the Making of Christian Free Enterprise, is under contract with Harvard University Press. Her areas of interest include the history of capitalism, the twentieth-century cultural and religious history of the United States, and transnational history. Click here to see the vita of Professor Moreton. 

(Ph.D. Georgia 1996; Associate Professor of History and of African-American Studies) multicultural history and African American history. Diane Batts Morrow's new book is Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1862-1860 (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Click here to see the vita of Professor Morrow. 

John H. Morrow, Jr.
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(Ph.D. Pennsylvania 1971; Franklin Professor of History). Morrow joined the UGA faculty in 1988 as Franklin Professor and spent 1988-89 at the National Air and Space Museum as the Lindbergh Visiting Professor. He was elected history department chair in 1991, and then served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1993 through 1995 before returning to fulltime teaching and research. He has twice been selected an Honors Professor for superior teaching in the University Honors Program. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the History of Modern Europe and War and Sciety. The author of the books Building German Airpower, 1909-1914 (1976), German Airpower in World War I (1982), Morrow's book The Great War in the Air (1993) is considered the definitive study of airpower in the First World War. His latest work is the edited volume A Yankee Ace in the RAF. The World War I letters of Captain Bogart Rogers (1996). He authored the chapter on the air war in the prestigious Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (1998), and he is currently writing a history of the First World War.

(Ph.D. Trinity College, Dublin 1990; Associate Professor of History and of Women’s Studies) modern Europe; twentieth-century France; sexuality in modern history; gay and lesbian studies; feminist theory. Miranda Pollard is the author of the book Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France, 1940-1944 (U of Chicago, 1998).

Robert A. Pratt
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(Ph.D. UCLA 2000; Assistant Professor of History) Reinaldo L. Román specializes in Latin American social and cultural history. His research deals primarily with the modern Caribbean. He is the author of Governing Spirits: Miracles and Spectacles in Twentieth-Century Cuba and Puerto Rico (UNC Press, 2007). He has published articles in the Journal of Religions in Africa, Centro, and Caribbean Studies, whose special issue on the Garvey movement he also co-edited. Click here to see Román's vita and visit his web site.

(Ph. D. Princeton, 1998) Middle East. Adam Sabra specialises in the history of the pre-modern Middle East, especially Egypt in the late medieval and early modern periods. He is the author of Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517 (Cambridge U. P., 2001), and co-editor with Richard McGregor of The Development of Sufism in the Mamluk Period (IFAO, 2006). His current research focuses on the social history of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) in Egypt.

(Ph.D. Columbia 2004), Associate Professor of history) Short specializes in the cultural and social history of nineteenth - and twentieth-century Germany and continental Europe, and modern European imperialism. He is currently completing a book on the social and cultural history of imperialism in Germany.

(Ph.D. Brown 1977; Distinguished Research Professor of History) United States diplomatic history; international history of the Cold War; U.S.-Korean Relations. Stueck is currently writing a history of U.S.-Korean relations. He is the author of, among other works, Rethinking the Korean War (Princeton University P, 2002) and The Korean War: An International History (Princeton U, 1995).

Paul S. Sutter
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(Ph.D. Kansas 1997; Associate Professor of History) Environmental History; Modern U.S. History; History of Public Health; American West.  Paul has published numerous scholarly and popular articles on the American wilderness movement, environmental historiography, southern environmental history, and other topics, and the University of Washington Press published his first book, Driven Wild:  How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement, in 2002.  Paul is currently at work on another book-length project, tentatively titled “Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics:  Environment, Disease, Race, and the U.S. Sanitary Program in Panama, 1904-1914.”  He is also the editor of the book series, “Environmental History and the American South,” which is published by the University of Georgia Press. Click here to see the vita of Professor Sutter.

Pamela Voekel
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(Ph.D Texas 1997; Associate Professor of History). Pamela Voekel’s first book demonstrated that the scientific Enlightenment in Mexico and the country’s Liberal Party had deep religious roots. Alone before God: the Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico (Duke, 2002) won the Thomas McGann Memorial Prize. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Tepoztlan Institute for the Transnational Study of the Americas. In addition to her work on Mexico, she has published on religion in Latin America and on the theory and practice of transnational history. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Voekel’s new book project focuses on the interplay of gender, race, religion, and politics in Mexico and the larger Atlantic world, 1750-1870. Teaching interests include modern and colonial Latin America; the history of capitalism; the Enlightenment; power, piety, and politics in the Atlantic world; theory and methods in history; race, gender, and revolution in the Americas; and the great Mexican Revolution.Click here to see the vita of Professor Voekel.

Thomas L. Whigham
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Kirk Willis
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Michael P. Winship
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History Fellows and Temporary Instructors

(Ph.D. Purdue University, December 2004) Carter specializes in modern European history. His article “The Fox-Trotters of Vieil-Armand: Jazz and the French Interwar Practice of Forgetting” will appear in Historical Reflections-Réflexions Historiques late 2007. He is currently revising a manuscript entitled: “When Will We Dance in French?”: Jazz, Gender, and Dancing French Identity. Carter has contributed numerous entries to several encyclopedias, including the World Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution, edited by Geoffroy de Laforcade. Carter has taught at Purdue University, Berry College, and the Ohio State University at Lima.

(Ph.D. U. of Kansas, 2006; Franklin Fellow and Temporary Assistant Professor) Environmental history, 20th-century US social/political history. Brian Drake specializes in the history of the postwar American environmental movement, and in particular its relationship to postwar politics and ideology. He is currently revising his dissertation, The Unnatural State: Conservatives, Libertarians, and the Postwar American Environmental Movement, for publication. Meanwhile, he has published articles in Great Plains Quarterly and Georgia Historical Quarterly, and his current research interests involve the environmental history of the South. Prior to arriving at UGA, Drake taught for two years in the Humanities and Western Civilization Program at the University of Kansas.

(Ph.D. University of Toronto 2002; LeConte Fellow and Temporary Assistant Professor) Medieval Europe; Church history and monasticism; Ireland.  Lee Follett is the author of Céli Dé in Ireland: Monastic Writing and Identity in the Early Middle Ages (Boydell & Brewer, 2006).  His recent articles on medieval monasticism appear in Journal of Celtic Studies and in Insignis Sophiae Arcator,an edited festschrift on medieval Latin studies.  Prior to coming to UGA, he taught at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia and held a post-doctoral scholarship in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies where he worked on late medieval manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy collection.

Barton A. Myers (B.A., The College of Wooster, 2003; M.A. Univ. of Georgia, 2005; Ph.D. Candidate, Univ. of Georgia) nineteenth century U.S. social, political, and military history. His dissertation, “Controlling Chaos: Unionists, Military Policy and Irregular Warfare in Confederate North Carolina” is a statewide study of the Unionist experience in Civil War North Carolina. The project explores the political culture of loyalty, Confederate military policy toward southern dissenters, and the emergence of guerrilla conflict in the Old North State. His book manuscript “Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865,” an expanded version of his master’s thesis, is currently under review. This community study examines the dynamics of race, southern Unionism, and Union army counter-guerrilla policy in northeastern North Carolina. During 2004-2005, he was the Lt. Col. Lily H. Gridley Fellow in Military History for the United State Marine Corps Historical Center in Quantico, Virginia.

(Ph.D. U Michigan; History lecturer and Temporary Assistant Professor). Soper specializes in modern Italian. In 1996 he completed his dissertation, entitled “A Context for Rule: Associations, Public Life, and Liberal Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1848- 1914.” In 1998, the Society of Italian Historical Studies awarded His dissertation the Howard A. Marraro Prize for the best unpublished manuscript in Italian history.  He is currently revising his dissertation for publication.

Professors Emeritus

James Anderson, Joseph Berrigan, Nash Boney, Ray Broussard, Thomas Dyer, Gilbert C. Fite, Jean Friedman, Thomas Ganschow, John Haag, Melvin Herndon, William Holmes, Charles Hudson, Wilbur D. Jones, Lee Kennett, Lester Langley, William McFeely, Robert McPherson, Ronald Rader, David D. Roberts, Edward Sokol, Lester Stephens, Emory Thomas, Lothar Tresp, Carl Vipperman, Charles Wynes, Earl Ziemke.

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