Auburn University History Department

We're so happy for our Ph.D student Holly Vlach! She is the recipient of the Annie White Mell American Independence Award (Auburn-Opelika Chapter of the National Society of Colonial Dames) for her paper "Crown or Colony: Colonial Governors and Their Relationship with Piracy in the 1690s."

Please congratulate Brucie Porter who has been awarded a 2022 Friends of the Alabama Archives Student Research Fellowship by the Alabama Department of Archives and History, for her project which “promises to make important contributions to our understanding of how very timely issues of race, education, power, and policing have shaped our society.” Good job, Brucie!

The Department of History presents Dr. Vanessa Holden's talk, "Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community" on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 4:30 CDT as part of the Black History Speaker Series.

We're so proud of our graduate students! 🎉🎉 Will Thomas was just selected as a graduate student researcher for the "Voices of Change Oral History Project" being funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University! Will is going to be working this summer with our colleagues at Tuskegee University to collect the oral histories of local Black women who "participated in the established political system or who have challenged the system through protest and other types of activism."

Congratulations to the Robert Reid Outstanding Graduate Professor of 2022, Dr. Monique Laney! This award is decided by our graduate students in an election conducted by our Phi Alpha Theta chapter officers.

Congratulations to Logan Barrett, the 2022 recipient of the Bert Hitchcock Graduate Award in Southern Studies! Logan is researching the intersections of the labor and civil rights movements in the Birmingham area. The Hitchcock Award provides a stipend for a graduate student to research in an area of Southern Studies.

The Departments of History and Political Science invite you to the webinar, "The War in Ukraine and the World" on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 4:00, CDT.

Zoom link: https://auburn.zoom.us/j/88043241725

Hey History grad students, come hang out at Auburn Draft House and meet with prospective students this Friday, March 18th at 4:30 pm CDT!

Celebrate Women's History Month by learning about "Southern Feminism in the 1960s and '70s" with our own Dr. Melissa Blair!

Date: March 17, 2022
Time: 11:00-12:00 pm, CDT

Our graduate students rock! 🤩🤩

Mickell Carter is the 2022 recipient of the Southeastern American Studies Association’s Critoph Prize for best paper by a graduate student.

Great job, Mickell!!

Please join me in congratulating our doctoral student, Mickell Carter, for being the recipient of a prestigious Auburn University Presidential Graduate Opportunity Program Fellowship! The PGOPs are “the most prestigious fellowship awards given to outstanding doctoral students at Auburn University."

Well done, Mickell! 🎉🎉

Check out Ph.D student Mickell Carter's essay for the Washington Post!

Perspective | The history of beauty pageants reveals the limits of Black representation Black contestants — and winners — have not translated into changed beauty standards or structural transformation.