Faculty By Discipline
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European History
The European History program at the University of Tennessee consists of talented faculty members with strengths in Premodern and Modern Europe. Our European historians guide both Masters’ Theses and Doctoral Dissertations and have sent a number of MA students to more specialized doctoral programs in European History at prestigious institutions across the country. These faculty members offer a broad range of exciting courses that examine the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Medieval Europe, Renaissance Europe, Tudor-Stuart England, the Russian Empire, the French Revolution, Nazi Germany, and Modern Britain. In addition, through Western Civilization courses, the European History faculty have the opportunity to teach a large percentage of all the undergraduates at the University of Tennessee.
- Bast, Robert - Late Middle Ages; Early Modern Germany; Renaissance; Reformation.
- Bohstedt, John - Modern Britain; European Social and Economic History; Riots and Revolutions.
- Burman, Thomas - Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations in the Middle Ages; Medieval Intellectual History.
- Graninger, Denver - Greek religion, Greek history
- Kulikowski, Michael - Late Antiquity Europe; Byzantium; Early Medieval Europe.
- Lafferty, Maura - Medieval Latin Language & Literature, Manuscript Studies
- Liulevicius, Vejas - Modern Germany; Modern Europe; Eastern Europe; Nazi Germany; Cultural and Intellectual History; Nationalism and Ethnicity.
- Magilow, Daniel - German, Holocaust Studies, Photography
- McIntosh, Jeri L. - Early Modern Europe.
- Phillips, Denise - 18th- and 19th- century Germany, Modern European, Intellectual and Cultural History, History of Science.
- Pinckney, Paul (emeritus) - Tudor-Stuart England; English Revolution of 1640-1660; Comparative Revolutions; Puritanism.
- Rubenstein,Jay - Medieval England, Medieval France, Normans, Crusades , Cultural and Religious History.
- Shepardson, Tina - Early Christian thought; Syriac
- Tandy, David - Greek History, Greek and Roman Economic History, Ancient extraction, production, and allocation
- Tompkins, David - Modern Germany and East-Central Europe, Cultural History, Music.
- Van de Moortel, Aleydis - Bronze age archaeology, Ancient seafaring
United States History
The historians of the United States offer concentrated strengths in the American South, Military History, Nineteenth-Century U.S. History, and Twentieth-Century U.S. History. They are supported by the outstanding manuscript collections of the UT libraries, three presidential papers projects, and the Department’s Center for the Study of War and Society. Faculty members also offer specialized courses in African-American History, Colonial and Early American History, Diplomatic History, Environmental History, Urban History, and Women’s and Gender History. In teaching general survey courses, upper-division courses, and honors seminars, the professors of U.S. History have been recognized for their commitment to undergraduate education, as has the department generally. These professors play a key role in the graduate program through course work and guiding theses and dissertations.
- Appier, Janis - Twentieth-Century U.S.; Women in America; Crime and Criminal Justice.
- Ash, Stephen - U. S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Southern History, Tennessee History.
- Ashdown, Paul - Civil War, James Agee, American South, popular culture
- Bergeron, Paul (emeritus) - Nineteenth-Century U.S. (particularly the antebellum period); Tennessee History; Southern History.
- Caudill, Edward - Civil War, American South, popular culture
- Feller, Daniel. - Jacksonian, Antebellum, and Civil War America.
- Fleming, Cynthia - Twentieth-Century U.S., Social/Cultural (particularly the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s); U.S. Race Relations; Black Educational History.
- Freeberg, Ernest - Antebellum, American Religion, First Amendment.
- Glover, Lorri - Early America; Family; American South.
- Hulsether, Mark - Religion, culture, and politics in U.S. history, Twentieth Century Protestant Social Thought
- Morrissey, Robert - Early America, American Frontiers, Atlantic World.
- Norrell, Robert - Southern History; Twentieth-Century U.S.; American Race Relations.
- Piehler, G. Kurt - War and Society; Oral History; World War II; History and Memory.
- Sacco, Lynn - Gender and Sexuality; Gilded Age and Progressive Era social and cultural history; U.S. Women's History; History of Medicine.
- Wheeler, William Bruce (emeritus) - Early Nation (1780-1820); New South; East Tennessee Regional History.
World History(Africa, Asia, and Latin America)
The World History program at the University of Tennessee draws together the diverse talents and interests of a broad, multidisciplinary faculty, including two Lindsay Young Professors. In teaching World History and more specialized courses in Jewish History and the history of Africa, China, Japan, Latin America, and the Middle East, these faculty members play an important role in expanding the academic experience and intellectual horizons of undergraduate students at the University of Tennessee. These faculty members are also an essential part of the graduate program, offering courses, participating in thesis and doctoral committees, and guiding Group III exams for a teaching field in World History. An ability to teach World History has become a common prerequisite for many academic positions offered today.
- Black, Chad - Early Latin America, Gender and Sexuality, Spanish Legal Culture, 19th-Century Andes.
- Brummett, Palmira - Middle Eastern History; World History; Ottoman History; Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective.
- Dessel, J.P. - History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Near East; Rise of Complex Societies; Ethnicity in the Ancient World.
- Diacon, Todd - Latin America.
- Higgs, Catherine - African; South African; British Imperial History.
- Liu, Lu - Modern Chinese history; The Formation of the Nation State in China since the Late Imperial Period.
- Stolz, Robert - Modern Japanese culture and politics, ecology and social theory.