Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Expertise: Ancient Greece and its history, literature and religion
Expertise: Theoretical physics, material science
Associate Professor of Music, Director of the Mike Curb Institute for Music
Expertise: Jazz studies, regional music studies, music history, guitar
Professor of English, Chair
Expertise: Nineteenth century British and Irish literature, cultural studies
Associate Professor of Business
Expertise: Personnel/human resource management, occupations and careers, health care careers, nursing shortage, hospital administration, employee motivation, leadership, organizational design, organizational performance and attitudes
Professor of Music; Coordinator of Voice
Expertise: Voice, vocal literature, American music, the songs of Paul Bowles
Expertise: Twentieth century American literature, contemporary fiction, creative writing
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Expertise: Religious history of the Americas, sacred space, religious tourism
Associate Professor of Music, Piano Coordinator
Expertise: Piano, music theory and literature
Associate Professor of Educational Studies
Expertise: Multicultural education, race and racism, teacher education, critical pedagogy, equity in schools, teacher professional development
Professor of International Studies
Expertise: International relations, international political economy, comparative public policy, pharmaceutical industry
Associate Professor of International Studies
Expertise: Political economy of East Asian countries, international politics of East Asia, China鈥檚 domestic politics and foreign relations, China-Taiwan-US relations, Taiwan studies
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Expertise: Greek & Roman art, archaeology, Aegean Bronze Age
Professor of Biology, Chair of Biology
Expertise: Ecology, wildlife biology, ornithology, invasive species, conservation biology, evolution
Professor and Chair of Art and Art History
Expertise: Renaissance, Baroque and Medieval art history
Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Program for the Study of Liberal Democracy
Expertise: Political Ideologies; Liberalism and Conservatism; Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom; Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy Issues; American Constitutionalism and Civic Education
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Chair of Environmental Studies and Sciences
Expertise: Inorganic chemistry, electrochemistry, and renewable energy
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Expertise: Art, studio art, digital art, animation, video
Associate Professor of Biology
Expertise: Developmental Biology, Molecular Genetics and Plant Biology
Professor of English, Director of the Meeman Center for Lifelong Learning
Expertise: Old English language and literature; oral traditions
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Expertise: Algebraic combinatorics
Expertise: Regulation, mortgage lending, betting markets, equine industries
Professor of Religious Studies, Albert Bruce Curry Professor of Religious Studies; On sabbatical Spring 2023
Expertise: New Testament, religious conversion, Christianity, the Bible and popular culture
Professor, Section Head-Chinese, Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures
Expertise: Chinese language and literature, contemporary Asian media and cinema, material culture
Professor of Art and Art History
Expertise: Painting, self-portraiture, pop culture
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies
Expertise: Housing, urban policy, neighborhood change (structural disinvestment, gentrification), 91重口 development/91重口 organizing, urban development
Professor of Music Theory, Music Cognition, oboe/English horn; Chair of Music
Expertise: Prokofiev鈥瞫 piano sonatas, music theory, music history, oboe, English horn, chamber music (woodwind quintet), orchestra, wind ensemble
Professor of Religious Studies - On Sabbatical Spring 2024
Expertise: Holocaust studies, religion and racism, addiction and recovery, mass incarceration
Associate Professor of Spanish, Section Head-Spanish
Expertise: Spanish language and Spanish-American literature
Professor of Biology, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Expertise: Biology of fungi, microbiology, cell biology
Expertise: Ultrasonics, medical physics
Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Chair of Urban Studies
Expertise: Health equity, health care safety net, COVID-19, the nonprofit sector, opioid crisis
Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Robert R. Waller Chair of Population Health
Expertise: Health disparities caused by structural injustice (racism, poverty), social determinants of health (housing, food, transportation, environmental hazards), religion and health, bias in healthcare settings and the history of medicine
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Expertise: American South, U.S. Constitutional/legal history, American civil war/reconstruction
Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies
Expertise: music history, African American history, disability history, country music, soul music, hip-hop, Memphis history
Associate Professor of History
Expertise: Medieval Europe; Jewish history; women and gender
Expertise: Modern Europe, modern France, history of jazz, urban history, history of natural disasters
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Virginia Ballou McGehee Professor of Muslim and Christian Relations
Expertise: Arabic, Islam, Catholicism, Bible
Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History
Expertise: Environmental history, war and society
Associate Professor of Elementary Literacy
Expertise: Education, literacy, bilingual education, English as a second language
Professor of Psychology, Chair of Neuroscience
Expertise: Stress, eating, obesity, and stress mindset
Associate Professor - Head of Section, Russian
Expertise: Russian language and literature, linguistics, Russian folklore, media theory
Associate Professor and Irma O. Sternberg Chair of History
Expertise: Contemporary Latin America, Colombia, Catholic Church history
Assistant Professor of Biology
Expertise: Pollinators, bees, ecology, entomology, botany, conservation biology, invasive species, citizen science, 91重口 science
Associate Professor of History
Expertise: Modern Asia
Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Expertise: Late Antiquity, ancient/late antique Egypt, Coptic, papyri
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Africana Studies, Associate Director of Equity & Culture (Institute for Health Equity & Community Justice)
Expertise: Bias in healthcare, clinical determinants of health, racial disparities in health conditions/access/delivery
Associate Professor, French and Francophone Studies
Expertise: French language, Francophone Sub-Saharan African literature and film, African diaspora, migrations studies
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures
Expertise: Latin American cinema, emerging media, game studies
Professor of Art and Art History
Expertise: Modern, contemporary and American art history
Professor of Religious Studies, Spence L. Wilson Senior Research Fellow
Expertise: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), archaeology and the Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls
Expertise: African American history, civil rights movement, 20th century social and political history, social change in the United States
Expertise: Genetics and cancer biology
Assistant Professor of German
Expertise: German language and literature, transnational and transcultural studies, migration studies, fairy and folktales
Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Statistics
Expertise: Topology, continuum theory, discrete dynamical systems
Professor of International Studies
Expertise: African politics, international relations, comparative politics, conflict studies, ethnicity and nationalism, democratization, social movements
Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies
Expertise: History of Colonial and Post Colonial Africa; Global Ocean Pirates and Piracy; Global history of Cannabis; Cinema in Africa
Professor of English, Executive Director of the Wilson Center
Expertise: Humanities, Shakespeare, close reading, history of education
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Expertise: Undergraduate mathematics education, graphical reasoning, teaching and learning of calculus
Professor of Psychology; Dean for Community Engagement/Executive Director of the Turley Memphis Center
Expertise: Educational psychology, instructional technologies, artificial intelligence, and 91重口 engagement
Professor and Chair of Chemistry
Expertise: Organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry
Associate Professor - Chair, Latin American and Latinx Studies
Expertise: Spanish-speaking cultures and language, environmental humanities, extractivism, colonialism and neocolonialism, globalization, Spatial studies, visual culture and literature
Expertise: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century American literature, feminist theory, cultural studies, feminist activism in American fiction
Emeritus Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Educational policy, constitutional law, racial politics, and American politics
Associate Professor of English
Expertise: Early and antebellum American literature, Gothic studies, critical race theory
Expertise: American film and TV, transnational cultural studies, visual media
Stanley J. Buckman Professor of International Studies
Expertise: Latin American politics, comparative politics, migration policy, children鈥檚 rights, civil society and social movements
Associate Professor of Music, Music History Coordinator, Co-chair of Search
Expertise: Music, opera, classical music, pop music
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, R.A. Webb Professor of Religious Studies, Chair of Religious Studies
Expertise: Early Christianity, historical Jesus, Gospels, apocalyptic thought, ideas about the afterlife, religion in ancient Rome, the formation of the Bible, theories of religious belief and practice
Associate Professor of English
Expertise: Eighteenth century British poetry & prose, encyclopedism genre
Expertise: Astronomy and astrophysics, climate change
Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Virtual environments, computer graphics, animation, and image processing
Professor and Chair of Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Expertise: Roman Republican history and religion
Associate Professor of History
Expertise: U.S. history since 1945, World War II, and U.S. political history
Associate Professor, The W. J. Millard Professor of Religious Studies
Expertise: Buddhism, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Meditation, Religious Tourism
Expertise: Twentieth century British literature and Irish literature
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences
Expertise: Aral Sea, Uzbekistan, environmental health, water management and policy
Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Expertise: Spoken Latin, comparative mythology, early Christianity
Assistant Professor of Music, Instrumental Coordinator
Expertise: Latin American & Caribbean Music, music of Sub-Saharan Africa, ethnomusicology, sound system and DJ cultures, sound and/in/as the environment, electric Guitar
Associate Professor of Educational Studies
Expertise: Early/Elementary literacy, high-stakes testing, literacy policy, writing instruction
Professor of Physics, Chair of Physics
Expertise: Solid state physics, biomaterials
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Computational biology, bioinformatics, data mining
Professor of Psychology, Winton M. Blount Professor of Social Sciences
Expertise: Psychology and aging, language and cognition
Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing
Expertise: Twentieth century American literature, contemporary poetry, creative writing
Professor of Philosophy, Director of the PPE Program
Expertise: Congress, American politics, political theory, U.S. Constitution, city charters
Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies
Expertise: Chinese language and literature, modern China, East Asian popular culture, Sinophone cinema, environmental humanities
Expertise: Modern Britain, India/Pakistan, European intellectual history
