Political Science

Taylor Chewning

Taylor Chewning

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Taylor Kinsley Chewning will join the political science faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as an assistant professor in fall 2025. She earned her undergraduate degree from Furman University in Greenville, SC in 2018 with a double major in economics and political science and international affairs before completing her PhD in political science at […]

Brooklyn Walker

Brooklyn Walker

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Brooklyn Walker is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in the Department of Political Science. She earned her PhD from the University of Kansas in 2022. Walker’s research explores the intersections of religious ideas and identities with political attitudes. She draws insights from and contributes to the literatures on public opinion, political […]

Kurt Mundorff

Kurt Mundorff

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Kurt’s research focuses on legal relations between the state, groups, and individuals in international law. His book, A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention applied a historical and literary-theoretical approach to one of the thorniest issues in genocide law, whether the Genocide Convention was meant to reach acts of cultural genocide. An earlier article published […]

Troy Goodale

Troy Goodale

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Lecturer Dr. Troy Goodale focuses his teaching and research activities in the areas of Political Philosophy and American Government & Politics. Pertaining to the former, his interests are primarily in the specialized areas of American Political Thought, Ancient Political Philosophy, and the Marx-Engels theory of the State. In the subfield of American Government & Politics, […]

Sojeong Lee

Sojeong Lee

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Sojeong Lee is a lecturer of Political Science at the University of Tennessee. Prior to joining UT Political Science, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for National Security and Foreign Affairs at the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. Lee received her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University […]