Timothy S. Huebner

Timothy S. Huebner is the Sternberg Professor of History at Rhodes College. A specialist in the history of the nineteenth-century United States, he is the author of several books and scholarly articles. His essays, reviews, and op-ed pieces have appeared in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch website, The Weekly Standard, SCOTUSBlog, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.

Prof. Huebner serves as co-editor (with Paul Finkelman and Charles Zelden) of Southern Legal Studies, a book series published by the University of Georgia Press, and as editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History, published three times a year by the Supreme Court Historical Society.

A member of the faculty at Rhodes College since 1995, Prof. Huebner teaches courses on the History of the American South, U.S. Constitutional History, and the Civil War and Reconstruction era. He founded and directed the Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies, a nationally acclaimed interdisciplinary undergraduate research program, and later served as chair of the Department of History for six years. He currently serves as Associate Provost at Rhodes. In 2004, Prof. Huebner received the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching, given annually to a member of the Rhodes faculty. That same year, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education named him the Tennessee Professor of the Year.

A native of Orlando, Prof. Huebner received his B.A. from the University of Miami (Phi Beta Kappa) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He lives in Memphis with his wife Kristin.