New, Continuing, and Reappointed Faculty
Kendanne Altizer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A., The University of Texas - Arlington; M.S., Clemson University; Ph.D., The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Destiny O. Birdsong
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Fisk University; M.A., University of Louisiana-Lafayette; M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Term Appointment, Advent 2021
Vassil Boiadjiev
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.S., Sofia University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Daniel Clay Carter
Teaching Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
B.S., Middle Tennessee State University; M.P.A., American University; Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Cameron Coates
Visiting Instructor of Philosophy
B.A., St. John's College; M.A., Loyola University; Ph.D., De Paul University (in progress)
Term Reappointment, Easter 2022
Adriana Colom Cruz
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; M.S., University of Essex; Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University
Term Reappointment, Advent 2021
Claire Cooper
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Georgetown University; M.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Chelsie Dunn
Visiting Instructor of Psychology
B.A., Wesleyan College; M.P.H., Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; M.A., Alliant International University; M.S., Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Myles Elledge
Director, Babson Center for Global Commerce
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., University of Pittsburgh
Paul Fischer
Visiting Instructor of Marketing
B.S., Middle Tennessee State University; M.B.A., University of Phoenix
Term Appointment, Advent 2021
Robert N. Gaines
Visiting Professor of Rhetoric
A.B., M.A., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., University of Iowa
Term Appointment, Advent 2021
Hugh Geller
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Goucher College; M.S., Ph.D., Clemson University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Aaron Gold
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A., The Citadel; M.A., East Carolina University; Ph.D., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Darin Graber
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Wabash College; M.F.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Stephen Hancock
Visiting Instructor of Physics
B.S., The University of the South; B.S., M.S., Washington University in St. Louis
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Emily K. Harrison
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre
B.A., Emerson College; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art & Design; Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Diana Hatchett
Visiting Assistant Professor of International & Global Studies
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Jennifer Paige Hill
Visiting Instructor of Education
B.A., University of Tennessee; M.A., Ed.S., Tennessee Technological University
Term Reappointment, Advent 2021
Huarui Jing
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
B.A., Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Eric Keen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.A., The University of the South; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Barbara King
Visiting Assistant Professor of Education
B.A., Lipscomb University; M.Ed., Middle Tennessee State University; Ed.S., Lincoln Memorial University; Ed.D., Lipscomb University
Term Reappointment, Advent 2021
Gwen Kirby
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Carleton College; M.F.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Andrew Parker Lawson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., Centre College; M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Alex Lee
Visiting Assistant Professor of International & Global Studies
B.A., University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Jessica C. Lowe
Visiting Instructor of Politics
B.A., The College of William & Mary; M.A., Duke University; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Tiffany S. Lu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
B.A., Princeton University; M.M., Ithaca College; D.M., University of Maryland, College Park
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Alessia Martini
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
B.A., Università di Pisa; M.A., Università per Stranieri di Siena; M.A., Florida Atlantic University; Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Giordano Mazza
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish & Italian
B.A., Università degli Studi Dell'Aquila; M.A., Università degli Studi "G.D' Annunzio" Pescara-Chiete; A.B.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Tiffany Momon
Assistant Professor of Public History
B.S., Tennessee State University; B.A., University of Memphis; M.A., Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State University
Tenure-Track Conversion; Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Marcus Murphy
Visiting Instructor of Chinese
B.S., The University of the South; M.A., Qingdao University
Term Reappointment, Advent 2021
Alejandro Mylonas-Leegstra
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., University of La Laguna; M.A., Complutense University; M.A., University of Connecticut
Five-Year Term Appointment, Academic Years 2020 - 2021 -- 2024 - 2025
David Neely
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology and Earth & Environmental Sciences
B.S., M.S., Frostburg State University; Ph.D., The University of Alabama
Term Reappointment, Advent 2021
Margaret Ott
Visiting Professor of Philosophy
B.A., University of Dallas; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas - Austin
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Peter Povey
Teaching Assistant Professor of Music
B.M., Royal College of Music; M.M., Yale University; D.M., Northwestern University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Thomas Powell
Visiting Assistant Professor of Forestry
B.S., The University of the South; M.S., University of Florida; Ph.D., Harvard University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Thomas Reppert
Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology
B.S., Virginia Tech; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Alexandra Richman
Visiting Instructor of Forestry
B.S., The University of the South; M.S., University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Term Appointment, Advent 2021
Karen Seapker
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
B.A., Muhlenberg College; M.F.A., City University of New York Hunter College
Term Appointment, Advent 2021
Leo Seballos
Teaching Assistant Professor of Chemistry
B.S., Loyola Marymount University; Ph.D., University of California
Two-Year Term Appointment, Academic Years 2020 - 2021 -- 2021 - 2022
Sid Simpson
Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics
B.A., University of Houston; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Helen F. Stapleton
Visiting Instructor of French
B.A., The University of the South; M.S., Georgia State University
Term Appointment, Advent 2021
Warren Swenson
Visiting Instructor of Rhetoric
B.A., Baker University; M.Div., M.S.T., The University of the South
Term Reappointment, Advent 2021
Amy J. Turner
Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Systems
B.S., Texas A&M University; M.S., Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Ph.D., Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Hilary Dow Ward
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
B.M., University of Kansas; M.A., Memphis Theological Seminary; M.Ed., Union University; E.D.D., The University of Memphis
Term Appointment, Advent 2021
W. Grady Wells
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Tennessee Technological University; M.S., Murray State University; Ph.D., Tennessee Technological University
Term Appointment, Advent 2021
G. Norman West
Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology
B.S., M.Ed., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Ph.D., Ball State University
Term Appointment, Advent 2021
Camille Westmont
Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Systems and Southern Studies
B.A., University of Kentucky; M.A., M.H.P., University of Maryland
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Elena "Susanna" Weygandt
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
B.A., Bryn Mawr; M.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D., Princeton University
Term Appointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Elizabeth Wiener
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics
B.A., Kenyon College; M.A., Ph.D., Emory University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Theatre
B.F.A., SUNY Purchase; M.F.A., New York University
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Donna Woodley
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art & Art History
B.S., Tennessee State University; M.F.A., Lesley University College of Art & Design
Term Appointment, Advent 2021
Cameron World
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
B.S., Ph.D., University of Queensland
Term Reappointment, Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Eric J. Zinn
Instructor of Accounting
B.A., The University of the South; J.D., L.L.M., University of Florida; M.S., M.B.A., University of Colorado, Denver
Three-Year Term Appointment, 2019 - 2020 -- 2021 - 2022
Honorary Faculty
Elena Eneva
Research Instructor of Computer and Data Science
Robert N. Gaines
Research Professor of Rhetoric
Sherry Hamby
Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology
Linda Mayes
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology
Craig Stubblebine
Research Professor Emeritus of Political Economy
Victoria Camille Westmont
Research Professor of Southern Studies
Leaves
| Kate Cammack (PSYC) | Easter 2022 |
| Catherine Cavagnaro (MATH) | Advent 2021 |
| Mila Dragojevic (POLS) | Advent 2021 |
| Anne Duffee (MATH) | Easter 2022 |
| Douglas Durig (PHYS) | 2021 - 2022 |
| Aymeric Glacet (FREN) | Advent 2021 |
| John Grammer (ENGL) | Advent 2021 |
| Karen Kuers (EES) | 2021 - 2022 |
| Melody Lehn (RHET/WGS) | Advent 2021 |
| Roger Levine (HIST) | 2021 - 2022 |
| Shana Minkin (IGS) | 2021 - 2022 |
| Mark Preslar (RUSN) | Easter 2022 |
| Jason Rosenberg (MUSC) | Advent 2021 |
| Bethel Seballos (CHEM) | 2021 - 2022 |
| Ken Smith (EES) | 2021 - 2023 |
| Sarah Sherwood (EES) | 2021 - 2022 |
| Yanbing Tan (ASTUD) | Advent 2021 |
| Scott Torreano (EES) | Advent 2021 |
| Kelly Whitmer (HIST) | Advent 2021 |
Faculty Not Returning
Toni Barnes
Christie Carl
Matthew Cathey
Manuel Chinchilla
Michael T. Coffey
David Earnest
Brian Gingrich
Harold Goldberg
Brooke Gorman
Sherry L. Hamby
Robie Jackson
Serkan Karadas
Najung Kim
Jacquelyn Loy
Jessica Mecellem
Antonio Momplet
Richard O'Connor
Emily Senefeld
John Shibata
Pete Smith
Kate Temoney
Katharine Wilkinson
Bret Windhauser
Faculty Appointments and Leaves from previous years can be found here.
