Meet Our Faculty
Christa Kieffer, PH.D.
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., University of Tennessee at Martin, 2017
Ph.D, University of Kentucky, 2024
Dr. Kieffer a is scholar of twentieth-century United States history, particularly race and racism in American politics. Her current book project focuses on the role of race in the construction of modern conservatism by examining the career of A. B. Happy Chandler.
She teaches courses on the civil rights movement, modern U.S. political history, American sports history, American womens history, and equality movements in the United States.