It is with great pleasure that The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chancellor Bill Stacy announces the appointment of Dr. John Friedl as Provost
and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Friedl comes to UTC from the
University of South Alabama, where he serves as dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences.

The UTC campus and Chattanooga community are invited to welcome Dr. Friedl at
the official announcement of his appointment and a reception in his honor on
Tuesday, April 30, at 10:30 a.m. on the portico of UTC’s Lupton Library.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate in anthropology from the University of California,
Berkeley, Friedl also earned a M.A. and Ph.D. at Berkeley. He went on to earn
a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and M.P.H. from the
University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Friedl comes to UTC with a great depth of experience.  Prior to joining USA in
2000, Friedl was director of the Center for Legal Studies in the College of
Arts and Sciences and Director of Graduate Studies for the Law School at Wayne
State University, where he held the rank of professor of anthropology and
associate professor of law. In 1996-97, he was an American Council on
Education Fellow in the President’s Office at Western Michigan University.

From 1984 thru 1993, Friedl worked as an attorney, specializing in corporate
law, commercial litigation, and trademark and intellectual property law. He
was the first full-time Executive Director of the Seva Foundation, an
international nonprofit public health organization headquartered in Chelsea,
Michigan. In 1981-82, Friedl investigated ethnic group differences in survival
rates among cancer patients as a Visiting Fellow at the Behavioral Medicine
Branch of the National Cancer Institute.  He was a full-time faculty member in
anthropology at Ohio State University, 1971-82.

The author of seven volumes, including three volumes of The Human Portrait:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology,  and numerous journal articles and book
chapters, Friedl is internationally renowned as a scholar in the anthropology,
law, public health policy.