Rosalind Hackett

Last updated

Rosalind I. J. Hackett is a British-born American historian, formerly a Distinguished Humanities Professor at the University of Tennessee from 2003 to 2008. [1] [2] She was born and spent her early life in England. [3]

She was granted an Honorary Chieftaincy in Nigeria for her research on religion in Nigeria and her work with the African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies. [4]

Related Research Articles

Helene Julia Sinnreich is the Director of the Fern and Manfred Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee. Sinnreich is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Identities. She served as a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007. Dr. Sinnreich was a fellow at Yad Vashem in 2009. She is author of The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Krakow Ghettos.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Toyin Falola</span> Nigerian historian (born 1953)

Toyin Omoyeni Falola is a Nigerian historian and professor of African Studies. Falola is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, and has served as the president of the African Studies Association. He is currently the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Tennessee</span> Public university in Knoxville, Tennessee

The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, with ten undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges. It hosts more than 30,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".

Bruce Edward Bursten is an American chemist, professor of chemistry, and was president of the American Chemical Society. He is provost at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research has specialised in inorganic chemistry and metal-containing molecules.

Gregory Kaplan is an American historian of Spanish Studies, currently a Distinguished Lindsay Young Professor at the University of Tennessee.

David A. Reidy is an American philosopher, currently the Distinguished Humanities Professor at University of Tennessee.

Nancy Henry is an American historian of English Studies at University of Tennessee, currently a Distinguished Humanities Professor.

Daniel Feller is an American historian, currently a Professor emeritus at University of Tennessee.

La Vinia Delois Jennings is an American literary scholar and critic of twentieth-century American literature and culture, currently a Distinguished Humanities Professor at the University of Tennessee, and also formerly a Lindsay Young Professor and a 1998 Fulbright Senior Lecturer appointed to the University of Málaga in Spain.

Dorothy Metzger Habel is an American historian of Ancient Roman art, currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee.

Ernest Freeberg is an American historian in 19th and 20th-century American culture, currently a Distinguished Humanities Professor at the University of Tennessee and previously the Lindsay Young Professor, Beaman Professor, and Head of the Department of History. In 2002, he was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize.

Adrián del Caro is an American historian of German and Austrian literature, currently a Distinguished Humanities Professor at University of Tennessee. He has written several monographs on Friedrich Nietzsche and translated several books by Nietzsche into English. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

Palmira Brummett, sometimes credited as Palmira Johnson Brummett is an American historian of Middle Eastern history. She is professor emeritus at the University of Tennessee where she previously served as a Distinguished Humanities Professor and Lindsay Young Professor. Subsequent to her tenure at UT, she was a visiting professor at Brown University from 2011-2016.

Michael Handelsman is an American specialist in Spanish language and of Latin American literature and Latin American studies, currently a Distinguished Humanities Professor at the University of Tennessee.

Charles H. Faulkner was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, most recently a Distinguished Professor at University of Tennessee. Faulkner made his name in historical archaeology, leading digs in Tennessee and in the south-eastern United States. He also contributed to rock-art research and Woodland-period archaeology.

Richard Aquila is an American philosopher, currently the co-editor of Kantian Review and formerly a Distinguished Humanities Professor at University of Tennessee.

Susan Elise Riechert is an American behavioral ecologist known for her research in evolutionary biology, evolutionary game theory and the behavior of spiders. She is also known for her "biology in a box" teaching materials, used by hundreds of thousands of elementary and secondary school students in Tennessee.

Dame Karin Judith Barber, is a British cultural anthropologist and academic, who specialises in the Yoruba-speaking area of Nigeria. From 1999 to 2017, she was Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. Before joining the Centre of West African Studies of the University of Birmingham, she was a lecturer at the University of Ife in Nigeria. Since 2018, she has been Centennial Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Folake Onayemi</span> Nigerian Professor of Classics

Folake Oritsegbubemi Onayemi is Professor of Classics and Head of the Department of Classics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in Classics in Nigeria and the first black woman to be Professor of Classics in sub-Saharan Africa. She is an expert on comparative Greco-Roman and Nigerian literature, cultures, and mythology, particularly relating to the roles and representations of women.

Dawn Marie Szymanski is an American psychologist. She is a Full professor and Editor-In-Chief of the Society for the Psychology of Women's journal, Psychology of Women Quarterly.

References

  1. "Distinguished Professorships in Humanities". utk.edu. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  2. "Hackett, Rosalind". worldcat.org. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  3. "Rosalind Hackett - Faculty Appreciation Week". faw.utk.edu. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  4. Bongmba, Elias Kifon (2020-01-20). "Professor Rosalind I.J. Hackett Honoured". The African Association for the Study of Religions. Retrieved 2023-08-20.