James R. Cox Professorship

The James R. Cox Professorship honors faculty members for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. The university’s gifts from Cox, a Knoxville native, helped establish professorships in 2002 for faculty in the arts, theater, biological and physical sciences, architecture, and forestry industries.

Previous Winners

	2020-2021 Jennifer Schweitzer Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
	2019-2020 Misty Anderson English
	2018-2019 Steven Wilhelm Microbiology
	2017-2018 Henri Grissino-Mayer Geography
	2016-2017 Suzanne Lenhart Mathematics
	2015-2016 Paul Armsworth Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
	2013-2014 Tricia Stuth Architecture
	2011-2012 Nathan Sanders Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
	2010-2011 Beauvais Lyons Art
	2010-2011 Gary McCracken Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
	2009-2010 Bill Black Theatre
	2009-2010 Edgar Stach Architecture
	2008-2009 Angela Batey Music
	2008-2009 Louis Gross Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
	2008-2009 Donald Hodges Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries
	2005-2006 George Dodds Architecture
	2002-2003 Gordon Burghardt Psychology
	2002-2003 Scott Schlarbaum Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries
	2002-2003 Susan Riechert Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
	2002-2003 Marvelene Moore Music