Research & Creative Activity

Marco digitizes medieval sources and welcomes new faculty in its ongoing mission to elevate the connections between—and make purposeful sense of—the past and the present. UT’s Marco Institute is an internationally acclaimed center for the study of the history and culture of the premodern world. Directed by Associate Professor of French Anne-Hélène Miller, the center…

Conveying their expertise to a general audience expands the reach of faculty members’ academic work. With a few hours of writing, faculty members from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, find they can expand their reach among academic circles and to a wider audience across the globe.  For three consecutive years UT has placed first in…

Newly published book by Nikki Luke examines Atlanta’s urban growth and increased use of electricity. Nikki Luke, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, recently published Electric Life: Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy through MIT Press.  Luke’s book traces the interwoven history of Atlanta’s racialized, uneven urban development and its ever-increasing electricity…

UT Professor Emeritus Gordon Burghardt is part of an international team of researchers that has identified the strongest predictor of why only some primate species continue to engage in social play past their juvenile years. Although about half of primate species play as adults with other adults, a team of international researchers has just unlocked…