Faculty

1960s

Former Faculty at 2010 Homecoming with President McPhee Drs. Franklin & Peterson, 2009 Dr. Korobkov (far left) in Russia, 2011.

In 1967 when Political Science is first listed as a separate department, the faculty included:

• Boyer, Elizabeth (LLB, Univ. of Colorado)
• Cunningham, Everett (PhD, Univ. of Kentucky)
• Grubbs, David (Ph D, Univ. of Pennsylvania) (Chair 1969-1988)
• Parks, Norman (Ph D, Vanderbilt) (Chair until 1969)
• *Perez-Reilly, Mario (ABD, Univ. of Tennessee)
• Turner, Jack J. (Graduate Study, Univ. of Kentucky)
• Vandervort, Thomas (PhD, Univ. of Tennessee)
• Essex, Frank W. (MAT, Vanderbilt)

Subsequent additions/changes..

• Peacock, Curry (1968) (MCP, Georgia Tech)
• Seaman, Esther M. (1969) (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota)
• *Vernardakis, George (1969) (PhD, Univ. of Michigan)

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1970s

• Bolin, Imogene (1970) (Graduate Study, Univ. of Tennessee)

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1980s

• Vile, John (1989) (PhD, Univ. of Virginia)
  (Chair 1989-2008) Dean, Honor's College (2008 - )

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1990s

• *Tesi , Moses (1990) (PhD, Vanderbilt)
• *Byrnes, Mark E. (1991) (PhD, Vanderbilt)
  Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, 2006-2010; Dean 2010 - )
• Sloan, Ann (1993) (PhD, Ohio State)
• *Langenbach, Lisa (1993) (PhD, Purdue)
• *Carlton, David (1994) (PhD, Purdue)
• *Livingston, Steven (1998) (PhD, Harvard)
• *McDaniel, Robb (1998) (PhD, Vanderbilt)
• *Willis, Clyde E. (1998) (PhD, Univ. of Tennessee)
• *Korobkov, Andrei (1999) (PhD, Univ. of Alabama)

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2000s

• *Maynor, John (2000) (PhD, York -UK)
• *Franklin, Sekou (2003) (PhD, Howard)
• *Petersen, Karen (2004) (PhD, Vanderbilt) (Assistant Dean, 2010- )
• *Di Paolo, Amanda (2008) (PhD, Syracuse)
• *Morris, Stephen (2009) (PhD, Univ. of Arizona) (Chair 2009- )
• *Robertson, Stephen (2010)
• *Syler, James Kent (2011)
  

* Active faculty