Greta Rensenbrink Profile

Chair & Professor
Harris Hall 105
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Biography

GRETA RENSENBRINK (Ph.D., Chicago), is a Professor of American History, specializing in late-20th century United States history and the history of sexuality. Along with methods classes, she teaches the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s, the history of sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ history. Her publications include “A Currency of Books: The Smith Sisters in East Tennessee,” in The Journal of East Tennessee History, 93 (2021), which won the McClung Award, and “Parthenogenesis: Regenerating Women’s Community through Virgin Birth,” which appeared in the Journal of the History of Sexuality. Dr. Rensenbrink is also Department Chair.