The Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy focuses on three main areas of interest. The Center maintains and promotes research in the papers of Howard H. Baker, Jr. and other political collections at the University of Tennessee. These materials provide a wealth of information for scholars and students. The Center will work to [...]
Research Interests Historical and interdisciplinary research on the interrelations of war and peace, conflict and diplomacy, with a mission of public service education; processing of oral history interviews of veterans; outreach; and establishing a digital archive. Founded in 1984 by the late Dr. Charles W. Johnson, the Center for the Study of War and Society [...]
Faculty Brian Barber, Child and Family Studies – Brian K. Barber, PhD is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Conflict, professor of child and family studies, and adjunct professor of psychology, all at the University of Tennessee (USA). He is also Technical Advisor to the World Health Organization and [...]
The Correspondence of James K. Polk project devotes itself to publishing the letters of the Tennessee native who served as the United States’ eleventh president from 1845 to 1849. The faculty members on this project select, transcribe, edit, and annotate these letters. The most important or interesting letters, they publish in full; the rest, they [...]
Cultural/historical geographers at Tennessee are actively engaged in research in areas of folk culture, Appalachia, population migrations, Europe, and other settlement topics. Micheline van Riemsdijk is interested in contemporary international migration and questions of belonging and inclusion. She is committed to a social justice agenda that investigates the distribution of society’s benefits and burdens and [...]
The Papers of Andrew Jackson is a project housed in the Department of History, the goal of which is to collect and publish, in a chronological series of volumes, a comprehensive and definitive edition of President Andrew Jackson’s public and private correspondence and other papers. Through a worldwide, multi-decade search, the project has acquired photocopies [...]
Political Science is an academic department consisting of twenty tenure-line faculty members. Achievements / Distinctions Several of our faculty members, including Professors Anthony Nownes, Michael Fitzgerald, and John Scheb, have been recognized through campus awards for teaching. Professor Robert Cunningham serves on numerous editorial boards, including Administrative Theory and Praxis, Review of Public Personnel Administration, [...]
Our mission is the creation of a learning environment that emphasizes the theme of Social Justice. Criminology Hoan Bui, Associate Professor, Intimate-partner violence, juvenile delinquency, immigration and crime, women/minorities in criminal justice. Ben Feldmeyer, Assistant Professor, Criminology, demography, race/ethnicity, stratification, research/quantitative methods, sentencing and the courts. Suzanne Kurth, Associate Professor, Social psychology, gender, sexual harassment, [...]
