Undergraduate Research Supervised
Matthew Boynton, self-designed major field "Cultures of Capitalism," 2010.
Casondra Turner, "The Transnational Roots of South African Anti-Apartheid," Honors Program, summer 2009. Winner: History Department Award.
Liana Hervas, "Indigenous Peoples and Migrants: New Nationalism in Ecuador in Historical Perspective," Honors Thesis and Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium, 2009.
Meagan Claiborn, "Reading International Development Projects: A Historical Analysis," 2009.
Erika Frank, "Radio Insurgente and the EZLN," Honors Program and Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium, 2008.
Adam Thomas, "US Military Perceptions of Puerto Rican Women and Their Impact on Public Health Policy in the Early Twentieth Century," Honors Program and Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium, 2008.
Karen Usselman, "Mexican Roots and Global Realities: Music and Identity among Mexican Immigrants to Atlanta, 1980-2007," Honors Thesis and Center for Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2008. Winner, UGA Library Research Award and UGA History Department Award.
Philip Thompson, "The Intellectual Roots of Castro's Authoritarianism: Reinterpreting Martí after the Turmoil of the Machadato," Honors Thesis, 2008.
Allison Bertke, "Gender and the Spanish-American War," Summer Undergraduate Research Program, 2007.
Matthew Wooten, "Black-Brown Relations in the Nuevo New South," Honors Program, 2007.
Jennifer L. Vanairsdale, "Reggae Culture in East Africa since the 1990s," Honors Thesis, 2006.
Judson Abbott, "General Efraín Ríos Montt's Protestant Connection: Ideological and Financial Input from the United States," Honors Program, UGA, 2004.
Carol Galloway, "Many Worlds Make Us: Women in the New Zapatista Movement," Honors Program, 2004.
Margaret Edwards, "Feminist Conflict in Peronist Argentina," Honors Thesis, 2003.
Dusty Parson, "Building a Fire: A History of the Organization of Mayan Women in Chiapas and Their Role in the Zapatista Uprising," Honors Thesis, 2003.
Kelly Ryan, "The Space between Criminality and the First Amendment," Honors Thesis, 2003.
Past Events
Julie Weise, Cal-State Long Beach, Department of History, spring 2010. Topic: Latino Immigrants and Politics in the South.
Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University, Department of History, spring 2010. Topic: The Art of Being In-Between: Indigenous Culture and Politics in Colonial Oaxaca.
Michael Snodgrass, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Department of History, spring 2009. Topic: The Bracero Program: Labor and Culture in Mexico and the United States
Noe Mendoza and Humberto Mendoza, Casa de Amistad, Athens, Georgia, spring 2007, 2008, 2009. Topic: Latino Politics and Culture in the South.
Francisco Risso and Juan Ignacio Montes, Western North Carolina Workers' Center, Nuevo New South presentation for UGA's Southern Salon, spring 2009. Topic: The Maya of Morganton, North Carolina.
Steve Striffler, University of New Orleans, Latin American Studies Program, fall 2008. Topic: Immigrant Workers in the Poultry Industry.
Alison Bruey, University of North Florida, Department of History, spring 2008. Topic: Popular Protest and Neoliberalism in Pinochet's Chile.
James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin (Madison), Department of History, spring 2008."Domingos Álvares and the Politics of Public Healing in the African-Portuguese World, 1710-1750." spring 2008.
Micol Seigel, Indiana University, African American and African Diaspora Studies, fall 2007. Topic: Transnational Theory and Methods; Racial Confiurations in Brazil and the United States.
Tracy Goode, University of Arizona, Department of History, fall 2007. Topic: Global Capitalism and Merchants in Colonial Mexico.
Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, fall 2006. Topic: Latino Politics in Georgia.
Stephan Palmié, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology, spring 2004. "Space, Time, and Units of Analysis in the Atlantic History of Ekpe/Abakuá."
Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan, Center for the History of Medicine, spring 2004. Topic: Disease and Medicine in the Tropics.
Laura Briggs, University of Arizona, Department of Women's Studies, spring 2004. Topic: Global Capitalism and Transnational Adoption.
Anne Rubenstein, York University, Department of History, spring 2004. Topic: Gender and Popular Cinema in Mexico's Golden Age.