The Department of Classics shows middle and high school students from East Tennessee the wonders of the ancient world and career opportunities in classics. The annual Latin Day at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been inspiring hundreds of young scholars from area middle and high schools for generations and supporting their teachers. “The event […]
Annual Book Party gathering honors faculty members’ published works for the year. The College of Arts and Sciences community gathered for the third annual fall Book Party this month, celebrating 29 book-length works published in the last year by 27 faculty members in the Division of Arts and Humanities and the Division of Social Sciences. […]
Printmaking faculty drew Tatiana Potts (MFA ’16) to UT, and now she’s working with college students in North Carolina to print books in the Cherokee language. When Tatiana Potts (MFA ’16) was growing up in Slovakia, she first learned how to draw and paint mostly through books in her local library. Now her bookmaking skills […]
Associate Professor Lisa King’s work on an exhibition of Native Art at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture has been recognized with an award for curatorial excellence. The curators of the Homelands: Connecting to Mounds through Native Art exhibition at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture have national recognition. Associate Professor […]
“I make weird pictures of real things and real pictures of weird things. Hopefully you can’t tell the difference.” Bucky MillerAssistant ProfessorSchool of Art I photograph to stir up ideas that exist outside language, so I typically can’t know where I’m going until I get there. No matter what medium I investigate, I maintain my fascination […]
Michael Jordan joins advancement staff to engage arts and humanities alumni. Michael Jordan joined the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) advancement team in 2025 as the major gifts officer for the Division of Arts and Humanities. In this role, he works with alumni and friends of the college to deepen their engagement and support […]
The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Tennessee, in partnership with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), is providing funding for a week-long course at the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute, held at the Université de Montréal in Canada. The session dates are June 8-12 and 15-19, 2026. The Denbo […]
The Appalachian Justice Research Center connects with regional communities to help resolve complex legal questions and transform lives. UT’s Appalachian Justice Research Center (AJRC) brings together skills and resources from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Winston College of Law to help solve urgent and historically under-addressed issues affecting people across East Tennessee […]
Alumna’s posthumously published work earns 2025 book award. Regina (Gina) White Benedict, a 2009 Department of Sociology PhD alumna, passed away suddenly in the spring of 2021 but left behind a legacy that lifts voices from an often-unheralded segment of society. Her spirit, scholarship, and community dedication live on in her posthumously published book, Incarceration […]
Introduction “Shaping Tomorrow’s Tennessee with Human–AI Solutions Today.” The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is launching THRIVE: Tennessee Human–AI Readiness & Innovation: Ventures in Excellence, an initiative that connects the best of our scholarship with real-world impact across the state. At its core, THRIVE advances AI research and its implications across disciplines, from the […]
