Writing & Research Methods (including Archival, Public, and Oral History), American Cultural and Political History, Comparative Civil Rights and Liberation Movements, Transnational Activism (particularly International Anti-apartheid Movements), American Political Culture and Civil Discourse, and Education Policy in U.S. Politics.

• Manages grant writing and project development for the Institute;
• Has taught history, research methods, and writing courses at the University at Buffalo (SUNY UB), SUNY Brockport, D’Youville College, and for Maryville College;
• Research has focused on how anti-apartheid art, both its production and the artwork itself, fostered solidarity between transnational activist communities;
• Earned a PhD in History from the State University of New York at Buffalo

Dr. Frankie Nicole Weaver
1640 Cumberland Avenue
Institute of American Civics
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-3340
Phone: 865-974-0607
Email: fweaver1@utk.edu