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 | |
| Andersen, Margaret | Assistant Professor | Europe | 974-9896 | mcookand@utk.edu |
| Ash, Stephen | Distinguished Professor of the Humanities | U. S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Southern History, Tennessee History | 974-5421 | sash@utk.edu |
| Ashdown, Paul | Associated Faculty: Professor, School of Journalism | Civil War, James Agee, American South, popular culture | 974-5155 | pashdown@utk.edu |
| Bast, Robert | Associate Professor | Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Germany, Renaissance (teaching), Reformation | 974-7083 | rbast@utk.edu |
| Becker, Brian | Lecturer | Medieval & Early Modern Europe | 974-7085 | |
| Bergeron, Paul | Emeritus Professor | 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 | Emeritus Professor | Modern Britain, Ireland, European Social and Economic History, Riots & Revolutions | 974-5424 | john-bohstedt@utk.edu |
| Brummett, Palmira | Distinguished Professor of the Humanities | Middle Eastern, Ottoman, and Islamic history of the early modern era | 974-7093 | palmira@utk.edu |
| Burman, Thomas | Professor & Head | Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations in the Middle Ages, Medieval Intellectual History, Many-Script Studies | 974-7082 | tburman@utk.edu |
| Candy, Christopher | Lecturer | Western Civilization | 974-5787 | |
| Carniello, Brian | Lecturer | World and Western Civilization | 974-6414 | bcarniel@utk.edu |
| Caudill, Edward | Associated Faculty: Professor, School of Journalism | Civil War, American South, popular culture | 974-4450 | ccaudill@utk.edu |
| Chaffin, Tom | Research Professor | Antebellum and Civil War-era U.S. history, the American South, the American West, environmental history, U.S. expansionism, American literature, as well as 19th-century British and Irish history | 974-0662 | tchaffi1@utk.edu |
| Coens, Tom | Associate Research Professor | Early Republic, Jacksonian & Civil War America | 974-0660 | tcoens@utk.edu |
| Cohen, Michael | Assistant Research Professor | US antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction; history of education; women’s and gender history | 974-2069 | mdcohen@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 | Executive Director for Academic Assessment & Program Support | Modern Latin America, Modern Brazil | 974-7086 | tdiacon@utk.edu |
| Emre, Side | Lecturer | Middle East & Asian History | 974-2094 | |
| Feller, Daniel | Hendrickson 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 | Lindsay Young Professor & Associate Head | American religious and cultural history, with an emphasis on the 19th century and early 20th century | 974-7090 | efreeber@utk.edu |
| Glover, Lorri | Professor | Early America, Family, South | 974-9868 | lglover@utk.edu |
| Graninger, Denver | Associated Faculty: Assistant Professor, Classics | Greek religion, Greek history | 974-6986 | cgraning@utk.edu |
| Higgs, Catherine | Associate Professor | Africa, South Africa, Women's History, Religion, British and Portuguese Colonialism | 974-7095 | chiggs@utk.edu |
| Hulsether, Mark | Associated Faculty: Professor, Religious Studies | Religion, culture, and politics in U.S. history, Twentieth Century Protestant Social Thought | 974-2466 | mhulseth@utk.edu |
| Hutton, Thomas | Lecturer | United States History | 974-5553 | thutton2@utk.edu |
| Jefferson, Ann | Lecturer | Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Latin America and U.S. | 974-5424 | ajeffer7@utk.edu |
| Keaton, Angela | Lecturer | Social & Cultural Dimensions of Post-WWII gun culture in America | 974-5421 | afrye3@utk.edu |
| Kulikowski, Michael | Associate Professor | Late Antiquity Europe, Byzantium, Early Medieval Europe | 974-7078 | mkulikow@utk.edu |
| Lafferty, Maura | Associated Faculty: Associate Professor, Classics | Medieval Latin Language & Literature, Manuscript Studies | 974-9896 | mlaffert@utk.edu |
| Li, Fangchun | Lecturer | Asian History | 974-9868 | |
| 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 |
| Maccari, Marina | Lecturer | Modern Europe, Migration History, Globalization | 974-5552 | mmaccari@utk.edu |
| Magilow, Daniel | Associated Faculty: Assistant Professor, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures | German, Holocaust Studies, Photography | 974-7163 | dmagilow@utk.edu |
| Mariner, Rosemary | Lecturer | U.S. Military History, Gender Intergration in the Armed Forces | 974-5421 | rmariner@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 |
| Moss, Laura-Eve | Assistant Research Professor | Jacksonian | 974-0660 | lmoss3@utk.edu |
| Nenzi, Laura | Assistant Professor | Social & Cultural History of Early Modern Japan | 974-9867 | lnenzi@utk.edu |
| Norrell, Robert | Bernadette Schmitt 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 Associate Professor | Tudor-Stuart England, English Revolution of 1640-1660, Comparative Revolutions, Puritanism | 974-7078 | pinckney@utk.edu |
| Roney, Scott | Lecturer | Modern Britain and History of Public Health | 974-5711 | sroney@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 |
| Salzer, Kathryn | Lecturer | Medieval History | 974-4392 | ksalzer@utk.edu |
| Schurr, Nancy | Lecturer | Revolutionary, and Jacksonian History | 974-5406 | nschurr@utk.edu |
| Shepardson, Tina | Assistant Professor, Religious Studies | Early Christian thought; Syriac | 974-7083 | cshepard@utk.edu |
| Tandy, David | Associated Faculty: Professor and Head, Classics | Greek History, Greek and Roman Economic History, Ancient extraction, production, and allocation | 974-5383 | dtandy@utk.edu |
| Van de Moortel, Aleydis | Associated Faculty: Assistant Professor, Classics | Bronze age archaeology, Ancient seafaring | 974-8279 | avdm@utk.edu |
| Wheeler, William Bruce | Emeritus Professor | U.S. Early Nation,
1780-1820,
U.S. New South,
East Tennessee Regional History |
974-7089 | wwheele1@utk.edu |