Lunch, Learn & Link (Virtual) Event #1 | Open Forum: Historians React to the Capitol Siege and the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout | Friday, January 29, 2021 / 11:00-12:00
Department of History Partnership with RISE Chattanooga
A collaboration involving the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of History and RISE Chattanooga, a community-based nonprofit organization, aims to preserve past and present African American culture in the Chattanooga area.
Dr. Kira Robison’s New Book
Congratulations to Dr. Kira Robison, Associate Professor of History, on the publication of her new book, Healers in the Making: Students, Physicians, and Medical Education in Medieval Bologna (1250-1550), Volume 126 of Brill’s The Medieval Mediterranean Series.
Tucker Adkins’ New Article
Tucker Adkins, a UTC History Department graduate, current instructor, and doctoral candidate at the Florida State University, recently published an article entitled “‘This Vally of Dry Boons’: Elizabeth Peck’s Plea to George Whitefield” in The New England Quarterly.
Spring 2021 Courses Focus on the Struggle for Racial Justice and Equity
The Department of History will be offering a range of interesting classes in the Spring of 2021. Many of those classes relate to the curricular theme adopted for the semester, which is The Struggle for Racial Justice and Equality.