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5.05/4/2026

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Elizabeth Propes is Associate Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at Tennessee Technological University, where she joined the faculty in 2010. Holding a Ph.D., she specializes in France, Modern Europe, China, Africa, and historical methods. Propes has significantly expanded the department's curriculum, filling key gaps in European history from the Reformation aftermath through the French Revolution. She developed courses in modern French history, modern German history including the Holocaust, took over the History of China course, and introduced a new African history course emphasizing Francophone Africa in 2011. Additional offerings include Western Civilization in Maymester format since 2014 and upper-division Maymester courses in 2016 and 2017. She taught the Senior Seminar on Europe Since 1968 in spring 2023. Propes has led numerous study abroad experiences, including trips to Paris in 2014 and 2017, a month-long excursion to Poland in 2015 with colleagues, a domestic trip through Georgia and South Carolina in 2013 where students met President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter, and accompaniment of a Foreign Languages group to Morocco in 2018.