History, Political Science, and Humanities professors are followers of Jesus Christ who have been trained at the world’s best programs and who desire to engage students intellectually, spiritually, and biblically in life’s most important questions. Faculty believe that we must never take our thought lives casually, but we must “take every thought captive to obey Christ” as we continuously learn to “love God with all of our mind” (2 Corinthians 10:5; Luke 10:27). As a result, our faculty focus on the central activities of excellent classroom teaching, personal mentoring of students, and careful scholarship in the fields of government, history, the classics and classical languages, humanities, law, political science, and international studies.

Ana Shippey Alves

Ana Alves Shippey, PhD

Associate Professor of Political Science
History, Political Science, & Humanities | Location: HUM 305F
Phone: (423) 614-8057
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Robert Barnett

Robert Barnett, PhD

Distinguished Professor of History
Specialty: Russian History & American History
History & Political Science | Location: HUM 307D
Phone: (423) 614-8349
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Andrew Bledsoe

Andrew Bledsoe, PhD

Associate Professor of History
Specialty: U.S. Civil War History
History, Political Science, & Humanities | Location: HUM 307B
Phone: (423) 614-8237
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John Coats

John Coats, PhD

Chairperson for the Department of History, Political Science, & Humanities / Professor of History
Specialty: U.S. Foreign Policy
History & Political Science | Location: HUM 307G
Phone: (423) 614-8350/8137
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Aaron Johnson

Aaron Johnson, PhD

Professor of Humanities
Specialty: Classics, Greco-Roman Civilization
History and Political Science | Location: HUM 307E
Phone: (423) 614-8127
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Thomas Pope

Thomas Pope, PhD

Professor of Political Science
Specialty: Political Theory, & U.S. Constitutional Law
History, Political Science, & Humanities | Location: HUM 305C
Phone: (423) 614-8133
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Mark Scully

Mark Scully, PhD

Associate Professor of Political Science
Specialty: Public Administration and American Politics
History, Political Science, and Humanities | Location: HUM 305G
Phone: (423) 614-8354
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Jason Ward

Jason Ward, PhD

Associate Professor of History
Specialty: Latin American History
History and Political Science | Location: HUM 307C
Phone: (423) 614-8367
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Jared Wielfaert

Jared Wielfaert, PhD

Associate Professor of Humanities
Specialty: Medieval Civilization
History and Political Science | Location: HUM 307A
Phone: (423) 614-8113
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