Dr. Amy L. Sayward

Professor

Dr. Amy L.  Sayward
615-898-2569
Room 279, Peck Hall (PH)
MTSU Box 23, Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Office Hours

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays

10:20-11:20 a.m.

Mondays and Wednesdays

1:00-2:00 p.m.

Global Expertise

Countries and/or Territories of Expertise

    Languages Spoken

      Areas of Global Specialization

        Degree Information

        • PHD, Ohio State University (1998)
        • MA, Ohio State University (1993)
        • BA, St Bonaventure University (1991)

        Areas of Expertise

        • Modern International History (research focus on 20th century and United Nations)
        • Modern U.S. History (teaching focus on post-1945)
        • Tennessee History (research focus on 20th century and criminal justice issues)

        Biography

        Amy L. Sayward is a Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University and the executive director of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).  She is the author/editor of five books on the United Nations, Tennessee history, and contemporary U.S. history.  She is currently working to combine these interests into a new monograph that examines the impact of the Cold War on Tennessee.  She teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in her areas of expertise.  

        Publications

        Book Publications:

        • Quinney, Kimber, and Amy Sayward, eds. Understanding and Teaching Contemporary U.S. History since Reagan, Harvey Goldberg series (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022).
        • Sayward, Amy. The United Nations in International History, New Approaches to International History series, ed. Thomas W. Zeiler (...
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        Book Publications:

        • Quinney, Kimber, and Amy Sayward, eds. Understanding and Teaching Contemporary U.S. History since Reagan, Harvey Goldberg series (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022).
        • Sayward, Amy. The United Nations in International History, New Approaches to International History series, ed. Thomas W. Zeiler (London: Bloomsbury, 2017).
        • Sayward, Amy, ed. Tennessee Histories (New York: Macmillan/Hayden-McNeil, 2016).
        • Sayward, Amy, and Margaret Vandiver, eds. Tennessee's New Abolitionists: The Fight to End the Death Penalty in the Volunteer State (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2010).
        • Staples, Amy. The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965, New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations series, ed. Mary Ann Heiss (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006).

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        Awards

        Selected Awards:

        • Faculty Teaching Fellow, Middle Tennessee State University, Learning, Teaching & Innovative Technology Center, 2013-14 academic year,

        • Nominated for Harold Love Prize for Outstanding Public Service, Tennessee Higher Education Commission, August 2013,

        • Outstanding Advisor, College of Liberal Arts, 2005-2006 and 1999-2000,

        • Sherman Emerging Scholar in International Affairs, University of North Carolina—Wilmington,

        • 2003 Stuart Bernath Article Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

        Courses

        Undergraduate Courses Taught:

        • History 2010, Survey of United States History I
        • History 2020, Survey of United States History II
        • History 2030, Tennessee History
        • History 3010, Historian's Craft
        • History 3011, Teaching Historical Thinking
        • History 3070, Topics in Global History: Gandhi, King, and Mandela: The Civil Rights Movement in International Perspective
        • History 3130, Vietnam War
        • History ...
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        Undergraduate Courses Taught:

        • History 2010, Survey of United States History I
        • History 2020, Survey of United States History II
        • History 2030, Tennessee History
        • History 3010, Historian's Craft
        • History 3011, Teaching Historical Thinking
        • History 3070, Topics in Global History: Gandhi, King, and Mandela: The Civil Rights Movement in International Perspective
        • History 3130, Vietnam War
        • History 4680, History of Sport in America
        • History 4840, World War II 

        Graduate Courses Taught:

        • History 6020, Historical Research Methods
        • History 6104/7104, Topics in American History: Cold War America; U.S.-Latin American Relations
        • History 6910/7910, Selected Studies in American History
        • History 6930, Selected Studies in Global History

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