Faculty Name
Tennant S. McWilliams, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Georgia
tsm@uab.edu
Tennant S. McWilliams, an American historian, serves as dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He has published two books on the South and World Affairs: Hannis Taylor: New Southerner as American (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1978); and The New South Faces the World: Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self (Louisiana State University Press, 1988). His articles have appeared in such journals as The Virginia Quarterly Review, the Pacific Historical Review, the Gulf Coast Historical Review, and Metropolitan University. He is completing a study of higher education and social change in the Deep South, a book about UAB's role in changing Birmingham and Alabama. Recently, he served as chief scholarly consultant and helped narrate a documentary on the U.S. takeover of Hawaii, "Hawaii's Last Queen", which now shows on the The History Channel.
For questions concerning his research, please contact Dr. McWilliams.
