“I study policing, culture, housing insecurity, race, gender, and sexuality.” Vivian SwayneTeaching Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Sociology I am particularly interested in how various forms of communication, from the visual arts to social media, reinforce and challenge the dominant social order. Damaging misinformation and myths about marginalized groups circulate as factual, and my work interrogates the […]
With the Harb family’s help, a new study abroad program to Jordan will immerse students in Palestinian history and culture, add perspective on global issues, and prepare students for international careers. Nearly 75 years after the first person of Palestinian descent graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a new program will allow students to […]
Welcome to the second Arts & Science Undergraduate Research Symposium (ASUReS). This event, now in its third year, is an annual celebration of research and creative endeavors by currently enrolled undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. About ASUReS ASUReS provides a platform for undergraduate students […]
The rodent that caused a sidewalk impression known as the “Chicago Rat Hole” likely was a squirrel, according to a UT animal researcher and his colleagues. An imprint of a rodent in concrete is more than a meme to an animal researcher from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his collaborators. By investigating photos of […]
Vols across arts and humanities interests find community and collaboration through wide-ranging organizations supported by student activities grants. Student-led organizations throughout the college and university offer Vols a wide range of opportunities to engage with each other on projects that enliven and enrich fellowship, friendship, and fun in campus life—all while connecting classroom insights and […]
“I study organizations that use violence to achieve political goals. I am primarily interested in how these groups, which are not governments, cooperate with each other and how they sometimes act like governments.” Leonardo Gentil FernandesAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Political Science I use computational and statistical approaches to unearth generalizable patterns of behaviors among armed non-state […]
Photo by Erik Campos Professor Helene Sinnreich’s book The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Łódź, and Kraków Ghettos during World War II was a shortlist finalist for the 2025 Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize. The German Studies Association awards the prize every two years to the best book dealing with Nazi Germany […]
A UT Digital Humanities team leads the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project to create a digital database of the author’s history-revealing correspondence. The UT faculty-led Maria Edgeworth Letters Project (MELP) will digitize the historic and extensive correspondence of the most commercially successful novelist from the Regency period, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities […]
Herbert Writing Center grows opportunities for helping Vols across campus develop professional writing skills. The Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center expanded its student-focused mission this fall thanks to ongoing engagement from the Herbert family and a new status as a college-level center for comprehensive, cross-disciplinary writing support for Vols at all academic levels. The center […]
Graduate student training program in sciences and math gets a boost from the National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $399,209 to Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) faculty to develop and implement a holistic disciplinary training program for first-year graduate students that enhances research, teaching, and leadership skills, […]
