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
Andrew Hutchens
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Specialties: Energy and environmental economics, transportation economics, industrial organization
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
Yining Wu
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Specialties: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, and the Intersection of Economic Policy with Sustainable Resource Management
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