Research Centers and Institutes - College of Arts and Sciences

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 and Professor of Sociology

Center for the Study of Black Families and Children

Deadric Williams, Director and Associate Professor of Sociology

Center for the Study of Tennesseeans at War

Chris Magra, Director and Professor of History

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Collaborative for Animal Behavior

Elizabeth Derryberry, Director and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Community of Scholars for Advancing Teaching Excellence

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

Forensic Anthropology Center

Dawnie Steadman, Director and Professor of Anthropology

Institute for Climate and Community Resilience

Kelsey Ellis, Director and Associate Professor of Geography and Sustainability

National Institute for Modeling Biological Systems

Nina Fefferman, Director and Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics

Neuroscience Network of East Tennessee

Matthew Cooper, Director and Professor of Psychology

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