Welcome to the University of Tennessee's Department of History

Welcome to the Department of History

When UT students sit in the classrooms of Dr. Lynn Sacco or Dr. Vejas Liulevicius they are not just learning history from professors whose teaching has won them fame among students and awards from the university; they are studying with scholars whose research has gained them national and international prestige. In fact, Dr. Sacco’s new book, Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History, just appeared from Johns Hopkins University Press, while Dr. Liulevicius’ The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present, is just out from Oxford University Press.

These are the faces of Department of History at the University of Tennessee, a community of distinguished scholars and excellent teachers at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Over just the last three years, our faculty of some twenty-five scholars has published fourteen books. Yet that same faculty teaches more undergraduates per person than almost any other department at this university. When you study here, you study with experts.

Our bachelor’s degree program allows students to learn from historians of the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Our excellent MA and PhD programs focus on selected areas of American history (especially the nineteenth-century and the history of religion in America) and European history (especially the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and Modern Germany).

Take time to explore our website and learn more about the distinguished historians who could be teaching you.

Thomas E. Burman
Professor and Head