Dirty History: Patrick Sheridan (University of Georgia)

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Fri, Oct 9 2026, 3:30 - 5pm
102 LeConte Hall

“Sweet, Sticky Rails: Sugar, Oil, and the Texas & Pacific Railway” with Patrick Sheridan, PhD student, history at the University of Georgia.

Dirty History is an interdisciplinary workshop for scholars working at the intersection of agriculture, environment, and capitalism.

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend. The authors whose work we discuss come from all over. Participants should come having read the papers in advance. 

To receive the papers, zoom links, or be added to the listserv please email srnelson@uga.edu.

Sponsored by the University of Georgia Department of History, the B. Phinizy Spalding Professor, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.