John C. Willis teaches U.S. history at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

 

His courses range from the American Revolution to the recent past, with emphasis on the role and changes of the U. S. South. He has published on slavery in antebellum Virginia and the New South frontier of the Mississippi Delta, and is currently exploring the environmental history of Tennessee's southern Cumberland Plateau. 

 

Willis joined the Sewanee faculty in the fall of 1991 and is now the duPont Professor of History.