History

https://history.utk.edu/

Ernest Freeberg, Head

Professors
Freeberg, E., PhD – Emory
Lawrence, S., PhD – Toronto (Canada)
Liulevicius, V.G., PhD – Pennsylvania
Magra, C., PhD – Pittsburgh
Nenzi, L., PhD – California (Santa Barbara)
Norrell, R.J. (Bernadotte Schmitt Professor), PhD – Virginia
Sanft, C., PhD – Muenster (Germany)

Associate Professors
Andersen, M., PhD – Iowa
Bast, R.J., PhD – Arizona
Black, C., PhD – New Mexico
Block, K., PhD – Rutgers
Dessel, J.P., PhD – Arizona
Gillis, M., PhD – Virginia
Harlow, L., PhD – Rice
Latham, J., PhD – California (Santa Barbara)
Olsson, T., PhD – Georgia (Athens)
Phillips, D., PhD – Harvard
Ritchey, S., PhD – Chicago
Vacca, A., PhD – Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Winford, B., PhD – North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Woods, M., PhD – South Carolina (Columbia)
Wu, S., PhD – Princeton

Assistant Professors
Bauer, B., PhD – North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Bland, R., PhD – Rutgers
Eggers, N., PhD – Wisconsin (Madison)
Gaitors, B., PhD – Tulane
Petrov, V., PhD – Columbia
Yirga, F., PhD – Ohio State

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.