Academic Touchdown
by Randall Brown UT’s Humanities Center officially became the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts this spring, named for alumnus and former Vol football star Don Denbo (BS ’71)....
Category: Humanities
Endowment Ensures Gesell’s Study of Ancient Life in Crete Will Continue
Now in her 90s, UT professor emerita Geraldine Gesell still travels to Crete twice a year to research archaeological artifacts found in the Kavousi area. So, it’s only fitting that...
Couple’s Generosity Helped Create Marco Institute, Continues to Support Arts
Katherine Riggsby and her late husband, Stuart, have left their mark on UT, both as long-time employees and as donors supporting wide-ranging interests. Katherine Riggsby was a campus system programmer;...
Faculty Bookshelf
Derek Alderman, Professor of Geography Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum Published by UGA Press, 2022 “What the authors successfully do is offer guides, site managers, and visitors a...
Faculty Spotlights
Nicole Eggers, an assistant professor of history, is an expert on African history and is fluent in Swahili. She received the College of Arts and Sciences 2020 Faculty Academic Outreach Service...
Spotlight on Diversity
As a college and institution of higher learning, it is our mission to promote intellectual inquiry and effective civic engagement within the context of respect for diversity. Our ability to...
Introducing the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the gateway to knowledge for every undergraduate student at UT. We are the largest, most diverse college and a central driver of the...
Faculty Bookshelf
The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Pelvis: An Integrative Approach Benjamin Auerbach, Department of Anthropology Cambridge University Press, 2020 A Demon-Haunted Land Monica Black, Department of History Metropolitan Books, 2020...
Coping with Covid
We are at the end of one of the most complicated semesters we have faced as a Volunteer community. I am proud of the way our faculty, staff, and students...
News & Noteworthy
Arts & Humanities News Kirsten Benson, director of the Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center, received the Paul E. Trentham, Sr. Library Partner Award during the UT Libraries Virtual Spirit Awards...
Dolly Parton’s America
In 2009, Associate Professor Lynn Sacco sat in Thompson-Boling Arena as the legendary Dolly Parton accepted an honorary degree from UT. Sacco admits that she had never really been a...
In a Speculative Light
As Black History Month kicked off in February 2020, staff in the UT Humanities Center worked with UT arts and humanities faculty to put the final touches on an interdisciplinary...
