Dr. Duke Richey
Dr. Duke Richey, the Howard H. Baker Jr. chair of American History at McCallie School, has been named to the 2019-20 Teacher Advisory Council of the National Humanities Center. The organization promotes humanities education in schools and colleges by advocating for strong scholarship and content, inquiry-based pedagogy, and emerging technologies.
Dr. Richey is one of 20 educators from throughout the nation, and the only one in Tennessee, to be asked to serve on the Council.
Dr. Richey, a 1986 graduate of McCallie, is a graduate of the University of the South, and has a master’s degree from the University of Montana and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He joined the McCallie faculty in 2010 as the Baker Chair of American History.
He also has been named to the Teaching Committee for the Organization of American Historians. Only three members of that 90-member committee come from high schools, with the remainder from colleges and universities.