Graduate History Association
The Graduate History Association (GHA) gives graduate students a voice in departmental affairs and works to improve graduate student life. All department graduate students are automatically members. View the GHA Constitution.
The GHA President(s) coordinates all GHA activities and is the official student liaison to the Director of Graduate Studies and the faculty in general. Presidents is elected at the end of each academic year. The GHA is happy to announce that Nick Juravich and K. Ian Shin will serve as our co-presidents for 2011-12.
Quick Links
- Email (GHA Listserv)
- GHA Wiki (events, collective knowledge)
- Teaching Wiki (information for TAs)
- Outside Jobs and Fellowships
Email List
Official announcements from the GHA are disseminated via our university email list.? All students are automatically enrolled in the list when they enter the graduate program.? Questions about the list should be directed to the GHA's communications director. Students can send messages to the list from their Columbia email accounts, via Cubmail or an email program they configure, like Thunderbird or Apple Mail.
The email address for the list is hd-gha@lists.columbia.edu. Please note that students who are receiving Columbia email with a service like Gmail should remember to send messages to the list from their Columbia accounts, not from a non-Columbia account.
To join the email list, please visit the list's information page.
GHA Wiki
Click here for the GHA Wiki, where GHA members can learn of upcoming events, share information about orals lists, researching techniques, advice about student life, collaborate on a revised version of the Graduate Handbook, and anything else they think useful. Anyone can read the wiki, but only GHA members who request permission to manage content can edit it.
GHA Teaching Wiki
Click here for the GHA Teaching Wiki, where TAs can find sample TA documents (eg TA syllabi, writing guides), information on the logistics of TAing (eg reserving rooms, ordering desk copies), past courses and TA assignments, and loads of other useful advice.