The History Graduate Student Association coordinates book sales and provides camaraderie and intellectual community to history graduate students and the larger UGA community. Universal associations for all graduate students campuswide include the UGA Graduate Student Association and the UGA Graduate and Professional Scholars.

Officers, 2009-20010

Ph.D. Representative and President: Zac Smith
MA Representative: Meg Brearley
Speaker Coordinator: Hannah Waits
Secretary-Treasurer: Jim Gigantino

Activities of the HGSA have included the following:

Annual Graduate Student Lecture Series

• 2008 – Dr. Tera W. Hunter, Princeton University, Professor of History and African American Studies, “‘Until Death or Distance Do You Part’”: Marriage and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century”
• 2007 – Dr. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, "Guts, Greyhounds, and Gandhi: Pauli Murray's Civil Rights Movement"