Melissa Hafer is the student and program support specialist with the Department of English. She has been a member of the Hokie family since 2019, and found her place here in 2025. Melissa first joined ...

Students who earn a degree from our college gain a wide range of skills. The skills they develop both in and out of the classroom have allowed our alumni to pursue a wide variety of careers.

Offers insights into the social and cultural implications of humans’ relationships with rats and the natural world. Apart from the occasional pet owner who has rats, most people regard rats as disease ...

The operatic text begins in Saigon, where she meets a little girl named Emi, an American of Vietnamese-Japanese descent visiting her mother’s country for the first time since the war’s end. As the ...

The Center for Humanities awards $4000 summer research stipends to five Virginia Tech faculty in support of their work and commitment to advancing the humanities. With a Center for Humanities Faculty ...

M.A., Political Science, Presidency University (formerly Presidency College, Calcutta), 2022 B.A. (Hons.), Political Science, Presidency University (formerly ...

Dissertation Title: "Populist Just Transitions." Chair: Scott Nelson. Defended December 2019. Current position: Instructor, Department of Political Science, University of Alabama. Dissertation Title: ...

The major in Environment, Development, and Global Economy (EDGE) is designed to help students analyze the choices and challenges that arise in the global economic system and equip them with a better ...

Border Identities. Colonial Encounters on the Margins of the Spanish Empire in Chile analyzes from an interdisciplinary perspective the processes of identity formation that took place between Mapuche ...

Last month, a professor and a graduate student from the Department of History traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate in a conference at the International Spy Museum. Rachel Midura, an assistant ...

Our commitment to bettering human life for all is the gravitational pull of sociology. It animates the learning, discovery, and engagement of the SOC@VT students, faculty, and staff.

The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) program at Virginia Tech educates and trains qualified young men and women for service as commissioned officers in the United States Air Force and ...