ISSE Staff
Tim Ezzell
Director, Community Partnership Center
Office Phone: (865) 974-9036
Email: tezzell@utk.edu
M.A., Ph.D., History
M.S.P, Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Tennessee
Dr. Tim Ezzell serves as director of the University of Tennessee Community Partnership Center. He holds a BA in history from Auburn University and graduate degrees in history and urban and regional planning from the University of Tennessee. He has worked extensively with communities throughout East Tennessee promoting sustainable growth, asset-based economic development, and citizen-driven planning processes. He has served as primary author of numerous reports and studies, including Little River, Big Future - one of the largest participatory watershed planning processes undertaken in the United States. His project sponsors include the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, and the Alcoa Foundation.
Historic preservation is a field in which Dr. Ezzell is very active. He works regularly with communities to develop and implement heritage-based development programs. Dr. Ezzell also served on the University’s Faculty Senate Historic Preservation Task Force and authored the institution’s successful application for a Getty Campus Heritage Grant. In recognition of these efforts, he was awarded a President’s Citation for Preservation Leadership by Knox Heritage in 2006.
Dr. Ezzell works extensively with students and involves them in most CPC projects. He also leads UT’s participation in the Appalachian Teaching Project, a service-learning program sponsored by the ARC. His work with students was acknowledged in 2007 when he was profiled as a notable faculty member by UT’s College of Arts and Sciences.
In his free time, Dr. Ezzell is devoted to his family, his dogs, and his cameras. His first book, a history of post Civil War Chattanooga, is under revision for the University of Tennessee Press.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Review of The Tennessee-Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900-1950 by Tom Lee for the Tennessee Historical Quarterly, forthcoming.
- "Adolph S. Ochs " in the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, eds. Jean Haskell and Rudy Abramson. Published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2006.
- "Inter-County Cooperation on Growth Policies: A Complement to P.C. 1101." A White Paper prepared for the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovermental Relations. With Mary R. English. May 2002.
RECENT PROJECT REPORTS
- "Hartford 2020: Envisioning a Sustainable Future for Hartford and Grassy Fork." With Eric Ogle, Dr. Bruce Tonn, and students from the Fall 2005 ATP class. April 2006.
- "Little River, Big Future: Promoting Water Quality in the Little River Watershed Through Participatory Planning, Report and Citizen Recommendations." September 2005.
- "Roadmap to Sustainability: Distressed Counties Technical Assistance Project, 2003-2004." With Eric Ogle, Dr. Bruce Tonn, and Suzanne Rogers. Final Project Report to the Appalachian Regional Commission. June 2004.
- "A Template for Sustainable Development in Cocke County, Tennessee: A Report to the Appalachian Regional Commission and the People of Cocke County." With Dr. Bruce Tonn. Prepared for the Consortium of Appalachian Centers and Institutes Collaborative Research and Teaching Project. January 2003.
RECENT PAPERS AND PANELS
- "Power of Partnership: Keeping the Brightest and Best in Appalachia." Presented at the Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Dayton, March 2006.
- "The Beck Cultural Heritage Tour: Downtown Knoxville’s Wireless Heritage Tourism Network." International Heritage Development Conference, Nashville/Knoxville, June 2005.
- With Bruce Tonn, "Shared Visions: An Assessment of Visioning in Rural Appalachia." Presented at the National Conference of the American Planning Association, Washington, April 2004.
- "New Urbanism and Nazi Germany: Neotraditional Community Design and the Third Reich." Presented at the National Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Baltimore, November 2002.