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Professor Lyons is the Associate Director for Community Outreach of the Institute of American Civics. He retired from the University of Tennessee in December 2011. He most recently worked as Deputy to the Mayor for the City of Knoxville before returning to the University as the Interim Associate Director of the Institute of American Civics. […]
Jonathan Ring earned his B.A. from the University of South Dakota (2007), and M.A. (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) from the University of Iowa. He was a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at the University of Michigan from 2014 – 2016 and an assistant professor at Cleveland State University from 2016 – 2017. Dr. Ring’s research […]
Dr. Krista Wiegand is Professor and Director of the Center for National Security and Foreign Affairs at the Howard J. Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. She joined the UTK faculty as Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science in 2014 after nine years on the faculty at Georgia Southern University. She received […]
Dr. Charles Sims is the TVA Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Director of the Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy at the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics. He attended the University of Tennessee, receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in […]