“The Youngest Children in Buchenwald” — The 2016 Holocaust Lecture with Julius Maslovat, child survivor of the Buchenwald and Bergen Belsen camps, and Kenneth Waltzer, Professor of History Emeritus at Michigan State University and former Director of Jewish Studies.
Highlights from the Historical Tour of the Tennessee Riverfront
On October 13, 2016, the UTC History Club and Southern Adventist University hosted a historical walking tour of the Tennessee riverfront with Maury Nicely. Check out some of the photos from the tour.
The U.S. and the World: Foreign Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election
On October 5, the UTC History Club and Euphrates Chapter held a roundtable with UTC’s history faculty on “The U.S. and the World: Foreign Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election.” The History Department’s regional experts broke down the foreign policy positions of the presidential candidates for an audience of UTC students, professors, and community members.
Summer Highlights
The UTC History Faculty had a busy summer. Here are some of the highlights.
New Faculty and Courses
The History Department is excited to welcome two new faculty members to UTC — Ryan Edwards, a scholar of modern Latin America, who recently completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University, and Fang Yu Hu, an expert on East Asia, who received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz.