Research Centers and Institutes

Appalachian Justice Research Center

Wendy A. Bach, Co-Director and Professor College of Law
Michelle Brown, Co-Director and Professor Sociology

Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC)

Alex Bentley, Director and Professor of Anthropology

Center for Planetary Science and Exploration

Jeffrey Moersch, Director and Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Center for Social Theory

Harry F. Dahms, Director

Center for the Study of Family Health and Well-Being

Deadric Williams, Director and Associate Professor of Sociology

Collaborative for Animal Behavior (CoLAB)

Elizabeth Derryberry, Director and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Community of Scholars for Advancing Teaching Excellence (CATE)

Elizabeth Schussler, Director and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts

Amy Elias, Director and Chancellor’s Professor and Distinguished Professor of English
Katie Burnett, Associate Director

Institute for Climate and Community Resilience

Kelsey Ellis, Director and Associate Professor of Geography and Sustainability
Nicholas Shanahan, Associate Director

National Institute for Modeling Biological Systems (NIMBIOS)

Brian O’Meara, Interim Director

Neuroscience Network of East Tennessee

Keerthi Krishnan, Director

Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Anne-Hélène Miller, Riggsby Director of the Marco Institute; Associate Professor and Chair of French

Plant Research Center

Andreas Nebenführ, Co-Director and Professor of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology
Meg Staton, Co-Director and Associate Professor of Entomology and Plant Pathology