Faculty

David Arceneaux
Assistant Professor
Specialties: National Security, International Conflict, and Nuclear Policy

Andrew Balthrop
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Supply Chain Policy, Freight Transportation, and Trucking

Tiffany Barron
Assistant Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Theory

Tara Kolar Bryan
Associate Professor
Specialties: Strategic Management, Nonprofit and Public Organizations, Civil Society Organizations in Central Europe, Community-Engaged Research and Teaching

Simeon Burns
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: History of Political Thought

Andy Busch
Professor and Associate Director, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: American political institutions, elections, and public policy

Kody Cooper
Associate Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: Political Theory, American Political Thoughts, Religion and Politics, Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Law.

Josh Dunn
Professor and Executive Director, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: American Constitutional Law & History, Education Policy, Federalism, Freedom of Speech & Religion

Timothy Fitzgerald
Associate Professor
Specialties: Natural Resource Economics and Energy Economics

Zachary German
Assistant Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: American Political and Constitutional Thought, Early Modern Thought, Statesmanship, Political Culture, Politics and Religion, and Constitutional Design

Mike Gutierrez
Teaching Associate Professor
Specialties: Public Administration and Emergency Management

Gov. Bill Haslam
Professor of Practice
Specialties: Tennessee Governance, Civility, Government

Joe Hoagland
Adjunct Professor
Specialties: Energy & Environmental Policy, Stakeholder Engagement


Benjamin Leard
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Transportation Policy, Decarbonization Strategies


William Lyons
Professor Emeritus and Associate Director for Community Outreach, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: Tennessee State & Local Government, American Politics, Voting Behavior

Dale Manning
Associate Professor
Specialties: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Policy, Natural Resource Valuation, Natural Resources, and Livelihoods

Morgan Marietta
Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: Political Consequences of Belief, focusing on Constitutional Politics, Political Psychology, and Facts in Politics

David McCollum
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Energy-Economic Systems Modeling; Advanced Energy and Transport Technologies; Integrated Assessment; and Global Change

Jack Mewhirter
Associate Professor
Specialties: Public Policy and Policy Process

James Patterson
Associate Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: Race, Religion, and American Political Thought

Jonathan Ring
Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Specialties: International Relations, Human Rights, Civil Society

Jessica Sargent
Teaching Assistant Professor
Specialties: Political Polarization, Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), Trust, and Optimistic Realism

John Scheb
Professor and Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Specialties: American Constitutional Law, Tennessee Government & Politics, Administrative Law, Civil Rights & Liberties

David H. Scott
Teaching Assistant Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialties: American Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, Judicial Process and Behavior, American Politics, and Political Philosophy

Charles B. Sims
TVA Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy; Director, Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy
Specialties: Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, Energy Economics, Public Health, Decision Theory

John Stavick
Assistant Professor
Specialties: State Tax Administration and the Consequences of Budget-Balancing Decisions on the Public Workforce

Xuhong Su
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Specialties: Public administration, public management and science & technology policy

Marianne Wanamaker
Dean and Professor
Specialties: Labor Economics & Workforce Development, Education, American Economic History, Demography

Jilleah Welch
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Specialties: Public Finance, Economics of Education, Environmental Economics

Krista Wiegand
Professor and Director, Center for National Security and Foreign Affairs
Specialties: International Relations, Territorial & Maritime Disputes, Conflict Management, Indo-Pacific, US National Security

Priscilla Zotti
Visiting Professor and former Dean of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the U.S. Naval Academy
Specialties: U.S. Military; U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence; Comparative Search and Seizure Law; Civil Rights and Civil Liberties