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• Department of History
• History
• History [M.A.]
• History [M.A.] - Public History
• Public History [Ph.D.]
• Middle East Studies Minor
• Liberal Arts [M.A.]

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

• 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)

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.  

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.