Lunchtime Time Machine: What makes a historical object "real"?

Assistant Professor
raad@uga.edu
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101 LeConte Hall

Join us as Assistant Professor Danielle Raad asks, What makes a historical object "real"?

 Danielle Raad is an Assistant Professor of History and Museum Studies. She is a public historian, anthropologist, archaeologist, and curator with a focus on how people in the present make meaning from the material culture—art, artifacts, and historic sites—of the past.

Prior to joining the faculty at UGA, Prof. Raad held positions as the Curator and Assistant Director of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections and as the Cullman-Payson Postdoctoral Fellow in Academic Affairs and Outreach at the Yale University Art Gallery. She has also previously worked as an academic advisor, a study abroad coordinator, a community college chemistry instructor, and a high school physics teacher.

She is the author of Above the Oxbow: Stories Entangled with a Mountain, forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in February 2026.

Students of all majors are welcome. 

Free pizza. This is an FYO event.