Faculty & Staff
See Also: Faculty by Disciplines
The Department of History has twenty-three full-time faculty members, three part-time members, and eight affiliated faculty members. The faculty is listed below as a whole (with contact information) and alphabetically within broadly defined disciplines in European History, United States History, and World History.
| Name | Title | Speciality | Phone | |
| Appier, Janis | Associate Professor | Twentieth Century U.S., U.S. Women's History; Crime and Criminal Justice | 974-9896 | jappier1@utk.edu |
| Ash, Stephen | Professor | U. S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Southern History, Tennessee History | 974-5421 | sash@utk.edu |
| Bast, Robert | Associate Professor | Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Germany, Renaissance (teaching), Reformation | 974-7083 | rbast@utk.edu |
| Bergeron, Paul | Emeritus | United States 19th Century antebellum period, Tennessee history , Southern history | N/A | N/A |
| Black, Chad | Assistant Professor | Early Latin America, Gender and Sexuality, Spanish Legal Culture, 19th-Century Andes | 974-0399 | cblack6@utk.edu |
| Bohstedt, John | Professor | Modern Britain, Ireland, European Social and Economic History, Riots & Revolutions | 974-5424 | john-bohstedt@utk.edu |
| Brummett, Palmira | Professor | Middle Eastern, Ottoman, and Islamic history of the early modern era | 974-7093 | palmira@utk.edu |
| Burman, Thomas | Department Head, Associate Professor |
Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations in the Middle Ages, Medieval Intellectual History | 974-7082 | tburman@utk.edu |
| Dessel, J.P. | Associate Professor | History and Archaeology of ancient Israel and the Near East Rise of Complex Societies, Ethnicity in the Ancient World | 974-9872 | jdessel@utk.edu |
| Diacon, Todd | Vice Provost for Academic Operations, Professor |
Modern Latin America, Modern Brazil | 974-7086 | tdiacon@utk.edu |
| Feller, Daniel | Professor | Jacksonian, Antebellum, and Civil War America | 974-7077 | dfeller@utk.edu |
| Fleming, Cynthia | Professor | Twentieth Century U.S., Social/Cultural History particularly the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, U.S. Race Relations, Black Educational History | 974-7088 | cfleming@utk.edu |
| Freeberg, Ernest | Associate Professor | American religious and cultural history, with an emphasis on the 19th century and early 20th century | 974-7090 | efreeber@utk.edu |
| Glover, Lorri | Associate Professor | Early America, Family, South | 974-9868 | lglover@utk.edu |
| Higgs, Catherine | Associate Professor | Africa, South Africa, Women's History, Religion, British and Portuguese Colonialism | 974-7095 | chiggs@utk.edu |
| Kulikowski, Michael | Associate Professor | Late Antiquity Europe, Byzantium, Early Medieval Europe | 974-7078 | mkulikow@utk.edu |
| Liu, Lu | Assistant Professor | Modern Chinese history with a particular interest in the formation of the nation state in China since the late imperial period | 974-7091 | lliu1@utk.edu |
| Liulevicius, Vejas | Associate Professor | Modern Germany and Europe, Eastern Europe, Nazi Germany, Cultural and Intellectual History, Nationalism and Ethnicity, World War I, Utopian Thought | 974-7320 | vliulevi@utk.edu |
| McIntosh, Jeri L. | Assistant Professor | Late Medieval England, Tudor/Stuart Britain, Women and Gender in Late Medieval Europe | 974-7081 | jmcintos@utk.edu |
| Morrissey, Robert | Assistant Professor | Early America, American Frontiers, Atlantic World | 974-0399 | rmorriss@utk.edu |
| Norrell, Robert | Professor | Southern history, U.S. history in the 20th Century, American race relations | 974-1130 | rnorrell@utk.edu |
| Phillips, Denise | Assistant Professor | 18th- and 19th- century Germany, Modern European, Intellectual and Cultural History, History of Science | 974-1473 | aphill13@utk.edu |
| Piehler, G. Kurt | Associate Professor | War and Society, Oral History, World War II, History and Memory | 974-7094 | gpiehler@utk.edu |
| Pinckney, Paul | Emeritus | Tudor-Stuart England, English Revolution of 1640-1660, Comparative Revolutions, Puritanism | 974-7078 | pinckney@utk.edu |
| Rubenstien, Jay | Associate Professor | Medieval England, Medieval France, Normans, Crusades , Cultural and Religious History | 974-0399 | jrubens1@utk.edu |
| Sacco, Lynn | Assistant Professor | Gender and Sexuality, Gilded Age and Progressive Era social and cultural history, U.S. Women's History, History of Medicine | 974-7092 | lsacco@utk.edu |
| Stolz, Robert | Assistant Professor | Ecology and Social Theory,
Materialist views of nature and politics, Modern Japanese intellectual history and politics |
974-9870 | rstolz@utk.edu |
| Tompkins, David | Assistant Professor | Modern Germany and East-Central Europe, Cultural History, Music | 974-9896 | dtompki3@utk.edu |
| Wheeler, William Bruce | Emeritus | U.S. Early Nation,
1780-1820,
U.S. New South,
East Tennessee Regional History |
974-7089 | wwheele1@utk.edu |