Apply for the 2024-2025 program to Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, and Krakow by September 30!

Normandy Scholars: Global History and Memory of World War II is a selective interdisciplinary program open to undergraduate students from all majors at the University of Tennessee. The goal is to study the legacies of World War II and other conflicts through the lens of memory studies, a discipline that examines how social, cultural, political, and technological shifts affect the ways societies react to and commemorate past conflicts in their national histories. The program includes a 3-hour Spring semester seminar class and a May mini-session study-abroad trip to relevant sites in Europe. All students receive a scholarship to help cover the cost of the mini-session study tour.

Why “Normandy Scholars”?

The beaches of Normandy are an enduring icon of World War II. They exemplify how memory becomes linked to places and sites, as well as how those links change over time. Normandy Scholars participants venture beyond the beach to discover sites of memory related to WWII across Europe. But our program name recalls the urgent questions that those beaches still represent: How do we remember the Second World War? What has been forgotten? And what do we still have to learn?

Want to be a part of Normandy Scholars in 2024-2025? Applications are now open through the VolsAbroad portal! The deadline is September 30. Please contact the Executive Director, Matthew Brauer, with any questions.

In the meantime, read about the 2023-2024 cohort’s experiences in France and Morocco on our study abroad blog.