History

https://history.utk.edu/

Ernest Freeberg, Head

Professors
Feller, D., PhD – Wisconsin
Freeberg, E., PhD – Emory
Lawrence, S., PdD – Toronto (Canada)
Liulevicius, V.G., PhD – Pennsylvania
Nenzi, L., PhD – California (Santa Barbara)
Norrell, R.J. (Bernadotte Schmitt Professor), PhD – Virginia

Associate Professors
Andersen, M., PhD – Iowa
Bast, R.J., PhD – Arizona
Black, C., PhD – New Mexico
Black, M., PhD – Virginia
Block, K., PhD – Rutgers
Dessel, J.P., PhD – Arizona
Gillis, M., PhD – Virginia
Harlow, L., PhD – Rice
Latham, J., PhD – California (Santa Barbara)
Magra, C., PhD – Pittsburgh
Phillips, D., PhD – Harvard
Ritchey, S., PhD – Chicago
Sacco, L., PhD – Southern California
Sanft, C., PhD – Muenster (Germany)
Vacca, A., PhD – Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Wu, S., PhD – Princeton

Assistant Professors
Bland, R., PhD – Rutgers
Eggers, N., PhD – Wisconsin (Madison)
Olsson, T., PhD – Georgia (Athens)
Petrov, V., PhD – Columbia
Reed, J., PhD – North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Williams, S., PhD – Rutgers
Winford, B., PhD – North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

The department’s program is designed to provide students with a knowledge of their cultural traditions and of their world, past and present, and thus to prepare them for the responsibilities of citizenship in today’s complex society. Students take history courses to develop their skills in thinking, reading, writing and speaking; to understand the links between past, present and future; and to assist them in their search for personal identity.

The department welcomes non-majors in its courses. Few history courses have formal prerequisites.