VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


Aarnes Gudmestad

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Aaron Ansell

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator Material Culture and Public Humanities MA Program
  • MCPH Program Director

Adam Lane

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Professional Development Committee

Aiden Connelly

Job Titles:
  • Equipment

Alex Dickow

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee
  • Program Co - Director

Alexa Gardner

Job Titles:
  • Contact Curriculum Coordinator

Amanda Armstrong Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Director of Advising

Amanda Pester

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Amy Allen


Amy Aubrey

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Major Gifts

Amy Ingram

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Manager

Amy Silverbush

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

Amy Splitt

Job Titles:
  • Grant Specialist and Publication Editor

Ananda Abeysekara


Anastasia Vogt Yuan

Job Titles:
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies

Andrew Adkins

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications

Andrew J. Scerri

Job Titles:
  • Director of Graduate Studies

Anita Lemon

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Administrative Coordinator

Ann La Berge

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emerita

Anna Zeide

Job Titles:
  • History

Anndal Narayanan


Ashley Reichelmann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Grants Advisory Committee

Ashley Shew

Ashley Shew participates in the STS PhD program, the Medicine & Society minor, the Disability Studies minor, the Bioethics graduate certificate, and Integrative Graduate Education Program on Regenerative Medicine as an associate professor. Her main areas of interest are philosophy of technology, emerging technologies, animal studies, bioethics and disability studies.

Ashley Snider

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Avery Wiscomb

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Barbara L. Allen

Barbara Allen's research focuses on environmental justice, namely, participatory projects that engage the public in shaping environmental health science. She works with local communities in heavily polluted industrial regions in France and the U.S. to produce rigorous environmental health data that can assist residents in their advocacy for policy and regulatory change. In 2022, Professor Allen completed a decade-long public health project in France's largest industrial region near the port of Marseille.

Ben Katz

Job Titles:
  • Program Area Coordinator

Ben Wiley

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Professional Advisor

Besnik Pula

Job Titles:
  • Contact Director
  • Director of the International Studies Program

Beth Lawton

Job Titles:
  • Budget Manager

Bettina Koch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee

Blake Smith - VP

Job Titles:
  • IT Manager
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Vice President
  • Vice President of the Executive Committee
  • IT Support Services
  • Manager, Information Technology Operations and Compliance Officer

Bonnie Billingsley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee

Brandi Quesenberry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Brandon Dove

Job Titles:
  • Office Manger

Brett Yarbough


Brett Yarbrough - Chairman, VP

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Vice President
  • Vice President of the Executive Committee
  • IT Support Specialist

Brian Britt

Job Titles:
  • Director

Brian L. Huddleston

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • IT Support Services
  • Primary Areas Served: Political Science

Brian Shabanowitz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Finance and Administration and Chief of Staff

Brittany Howell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee

Caitlin Jewitt - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Chairman
  • Contact Chair

Cammie Sgarrella - Chairman, President

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • President
  • President of the Executive Committee
  • Academic Coordinator, Graduate Coordinator, & Communications Specialist

Capt. Steven Antcliff

Job Titles:
  • Commanding Officer

Cara Daggett

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Political Science

Carlos Evia - CTO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Associate Dean for Transdisciplinary Initiatives, Chief Technology Officer, and Professor of Communication
  • Associate Dean, Technology

Carmen Gitre

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
  • Associate Chair & Director of Undergraduate Studies

Carol Cash


Caroline Hornburg


Carolyn Ballard

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Professional Advisor

Carolyn Commer

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director of Ph.D. Program

Carolyn Kletnieks

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Specialist

Casey Walker

Job Titles:
  • Enrollment Services Specialist

Catalina Andrango-Walker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
  • Member of the Grants Advisory Committee

Cayce Myers

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Graduate Curriculum Committee
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Graduate Director

Chad Levinson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Honors and Awards Committee

Chelsey Hancock

Job Titles:
  • Professional Academic Advisor
  • Undergraduate Advising and Student Program Specialist

Chloe Pennington

Job Titles:
  • Contact Office Manager

Christine Labuski

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
Christine Labuski's research and teaching are organized around two primary areas of inquiry: sexualities and how sexualities become medicalized, and; gender and climate/environmental justice, with an emphasis on feminist energy systems, queer ecologies, and the gender politics of fossil fuel boomtowns.

Christopher Stewart Price

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator

Col. John O'Dell

Job Titles:
  • Commanding Officer

Cora Olson

Cora Olson's research has two key strands: the intertwined construction of biomedical knowledge and morality and critical STS pedagogical practices. She is currently in the process of transitioning out of COVID related research back into sports related research within the first strand. In the second strand, she is working on projects related to how critical STS is practiced at Virginia Tech.

Corinne Noirot

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee

Courtney Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies

Cyndie Ellis

Job Titles:
  • Fiscal Technician

Cynthia Peecher

Job Titles:
  • Budget Manager

Dale Wimberley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

Dana Robertson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee

Daniel Breslau

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee
Daniel Breslau works at the intersection of Economic Sociology and Science and Technology Studies, with a focus on the sociology and politics of electricity markets. He is interested in the ways that the politics of climate and energy transition interact with the politics and science of market institutions. His has published widely on the history and sociology of the social sciences, particularly on their role in the formation of modern institutions.

Daniel Sui

Job Titles:
  • VP for Research and Innovation

Danille Christensen


Danna Agmon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee
  • History

David Bieri


David Brunsma

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee

David Tomblin

Job Titles:
  • Program Director, Science, Technology, and Society, U Maryland, College Park

Dawn Knight

Job Titles:
  • Advising Coordinator

Debbie Alvis

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Debra Stoudt

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Policy and Faculty Affairs
  • Associate Dean for Policy and Faculty Affairs and Professor of German
  • Associate Dean, Academic Policies and Procedures
  • Contact Associate Dean

Derek Mueller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee

Diane Zahm

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Diann Eaton

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director
  • Contact Director

Donna Eastwood

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Chair

Doris H. Kincade

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Doris Kincade is a professor in the Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management.

Doris Zallen

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dorothy Conner


Douglas Lind

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee

Dr. Caroline Sanner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
  • Family Studies Area Coordinator
  • Program Area Coordinator

Dr. Christine Christianson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Assessment and Accreditation

Dr. G. Francis Cavendish

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources ( Onboarding )

Dr. Gerard Lawson

Job Titles:
  • Interim Director of the School of Education
  • Professor and Director

Dr. Kibong Song

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Practice

Dr. Megan Dolbin-MacNab

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee
  • Contact Program Director
  • Program Area Coordinator
  • Program Director and Associate Professor / the Family Therapy Center

Dr. Nancy Bradley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

E. Thomas Ewing

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
  • Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research and Professor of History
  • Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research
  • Contact Associate Dean

Ed Gitre


Eileen Crist

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emerita

Elizabeth Long

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Coordinator and Academic Advisor

Elizabeth Manns

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Undergraduate Student Services Coordinator

Ellen Agee

Job Titles:
  • Licensure and Placement Coordinator
  • Teacher Licensure and Teacher Preparation Programs Questions

Ellsworth Fuhrman

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Emily Meade - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Communications Officer
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Technical Content Specialist

Emily Satterwhite

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee

Erika Grafsky

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee
  • Director of Graduate Studies

Erin A. Hopkins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
  • Associate Professor of Property Management
Erin A. Hopkins, PhD, serves as an Associate Professor of Property Management within the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, where she teaches courses in property management operations and sustainable property management. She has been awarded Virginia Tech's Teacher of the Week and has received recognition in Virginia Tech's "Thank a Teacher" program multiple times. Her research interests include how green building policy impacts the environmental, social, and economic spheres of sustainability as well as how contemplative practices can be used in higher education and industry to cultivate mindfulness. She most recently has received the Woman of Influence award from the GlobeSt Real Estate Forum and Best Paper award in housing and interior design from the Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal. She sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, and currently serves on IREM Foundation's Board of Directors, IREM's ESG Advisory Council, and is an executive committee member for the Contemplative Higher Education Alliance for Research, Teaching & Service.

Ester Bauer


Esther Bauer

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Eunju Hwang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee

Eve Trager

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Services

Eyoviel Berhe

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Specialist and Fixed Asset Coordinator
  • IT Support Specialist and Fixed Assets Coordinator

Fabian Prieto-Nañez

Fabian Prieto-Nañez's research and teaching focuses on the history of technologies in the Global South, particularly through the lens of media devices and infrastructures. His dissertation focused on ideas of piracy, informality and illegality in the use of early satellite dishes in the Caribbean, particularly in Colombia. He also had worked on histories of computing in Latin America.

Farida Jalalza

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Global Initiatives and Engagement

Farida Jalalzai

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Global Initiatives and Engagement
  • Associate Dean for Global Initiatives and Engagement and Professor of Political Science
  • Convener

Fernanda R. Rosa

Fernanda R. Rosa is currently working on her second book project whose narrative builds a bridge between technical debates on internet interconnection infrastructure and social justice to examine internet governance and design from the standpoint of the global South. Using an original method defined as code ethnography, and a transdisciplinary lens founded on science and technologies studies, decolonial and feminist studies, the book sheds light on the information circulation infrastructure of the internet with a design justice and policy approach. It situates the reader in indigenous and Latin American contexts to problematize the inequalities in the access to internet infrastructure and the values embedded in information circulation infrastructure of the internet. Brazil, Germany, Mexico, and Tseltal and Zapoteco sovereign territories are the fieldwork sites of this study.

Gabby Taylor Brown

Job Titles:
  • Communications Coordinator
  • Communications and Marketing

Gary Downey

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Gena Chandler

Job Titles:
  • Contact Associate Chair

Geneva Watson

Job Titles:
  • Budget Manager

Gil Hersch

Job Titles:
  • Director of Graduate Studies

Giselle Datz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee

Glenn Bugh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee
  • History

Gonzalo Montero

Job Titles:
  • Director of Graduate Studies

Grant Specialist

Job Titles:
  • Grant Specialist and Publication Editor

Greg Novak


Hannah Shinault

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Hannah Wildman Short

Job Titles:
  • Director of Undergradaute Studies

Heath Furrow

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor

Heather Webster

Job Titles:
  • Executive Secretary

Heidi Anne Mesmer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Honors and Awards Committee

Hina Illahe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

Ila W Schepisi

Job Titles:
  • Director, Engagement Center for Creative Aging

Isabel Bradburn

Job Titles:
  • Contact Research Director

James Hawdon

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention
Director of the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention 205A Norris Hall Phone: 540-231-7476 hawdonj@vt.edu

Jamie McElfresh

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Janet Abbate

Job Titles:
  • NCR Graduate Studies Co - Director
Janet Abbate's work focuses on the history, culture, and policy issues of the internet and computing. Her book Inventing the Internet has become the standard reference on the history of the Internet. Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing explores how gender has shaped computing and suggests how the experiences of female pioneers can inform current efforts to broaden participation in science and technology.

Jared Gibbs - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Chairman
  • Contact Assistant Chair

Jared Woolly

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee

Jasmine Rorrer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Content Creator

Jason Guthrie

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Javier Navejas

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Jean Monnet - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Jenene Case Pease

Job Titles:
  • Contact Center Director

Jennifer A. Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Department of Sociology
  • Department Chair

Jennifer Hanratty

Job Titles:
  • International Studies Academic Advisor

Jennifer Hart

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Department of History
  • Department Chair

Jenny Kincaid Boone

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing and Communications
  • Director, Marketing and Communications
  • Media and News Inquiries

Jenny Vincent

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration
  • Chief of Staff and Associate Dean, Administration and Finance

Jeremy Brown

Job Titles:
  • Master
  • Sergeant
  • Military Science Instructor

Jeremy Sather

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Jess Calvert

Job Titles:
  • Student Services

Jessica Calvert

Job Titles:
  • Student Services and Curriculum Coordinator

Jessica Dufault

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Jessica Folkart

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair
  • Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

Jim Klagge

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Jimmy Ivory

Job Titles:
  • Research Director
  • Contact Director

Jin Tian Acton

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Joe Scallorns

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee

Joel Peters

Job Titles:
  • Director of the School of Public and International Affairs

John K. Aggrey

John K. Aggrey studies risk and infectious diseases, focusing on rural and urban populations in Africa. He has studied Ebola and COVID-19, most recently focusing on how communities construct a sense of risk and how social and political contexts shape emerging infectious diseases. John also investigates the vital role of human relationships in epidemic preparedness, challenging conventional models that overly rely on technological and logistical solutions.

John Tedesco

Job Titles:
  • Contact Director
  • Director of the School of Communication
  • Director, School of Communication

John Tilton

Job Titles:
  • Systems Administrator

Joseph Pitt

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Philosophy
237 Major Williams Hall, 220 Stanger Street, Blacksburg, VA 24061, 540-231-5760| jcpitt@vt.edu

Justin Horn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Honors and Awards Committee

Karen Gallagher

Job Titles:
  • Contact Center Director
  • Director Child Development Center for Learning and Research

Karen Moore

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Karen Watson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director
  • Senior Director of Academic Support

Kari Woodard

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Karin Kitchens


Katalin Parti

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee

Kate Renz

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Employer Relations and Career Services

Katharine Cleland

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director of M.a. Program

Katherine Cleland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee

Kathy Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Budget Analyst

Kathy Tickle

Job Titles:
  • Enrollment Services Specialist

Katie Akers


Katie Carmichael

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

Katlin Smith

Job Titles:
  • Grants Coordinator Assistant

Kelly Crist

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Kelly Pender

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Department of English
  • Contact Chair
  • Department Chair
  • Professor and Department Chair, English

Kelly Trogdon

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Department of Philosophy
  • Department Chair

Kelsey Bartlett

Job Titles:
  • Communications Coordinator
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Kenneth Akers

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Digital Communications Manager

Kenneth Hodges


Kevin Martin - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman of the Professional Development Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • IT Support Services

Kim Hedge

Job Titles:
  • Executive Secretary Senior

Kimberly Garnand

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Coordinator

Kristen Benson

Job Titles:
  • Program Area Coordinator

Kristina Ann Bryan

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Kristy Morrill

Job Titles:
  • Director of Student Recruitment

LaRhonda Kellison

Job Titles:
  • IT Coordinator

Laura A. Belmonte

Job Titles:
  • Dean of the College
Laura A. Belmonte is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and Professor of History at Virginia Tech. She received her A.B. in History and Political Science from the University of Georgia and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia.

Laura Belmonte

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee
  • Dean & Convener
  • Dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
Before accepting the deanship at Virginia Tech in 2019, she taught at Oklahoma State University for twenty-three years. Her administrative roles included Director of American Studies, Head of the Department of History, and Associate Dean for Personnel and Instruction for the College of Arts and Sciences. She has extensive non-profit board experience and has served on the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation from 2009 to 2019. In 2021-2022, she served as President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Her SHAFR experience also includes terms on the SHAFR national council, the editorial board of Diplomatic History, the Nominating Committee, the Link-Kuehl Prize Committee, the Committee on the Status of Women, and other ad hoc committees.

Laura Belmonte Dean

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Tasia Persson Executive Assistant

Laura Zanotti

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee

Lee Vinsel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Lee Vinsel studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His current work focuses on the production of Peoples & Things, a podcast featuring interviews with the world's leading figures in the empirical study of technology and society, and his book project, A Good History of $#%@ Jobs, which examines why so many households in the United States can barely make ends meet.

Leslie King

Job Titles:
  • Department Communications
  • Manager of Communications

Liora Goldensher

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Sociology

Lisa M. Tucker

Job Titles:
  • Contact Department Head
  • Department Head
  • Department Head / Department of Apparel, Housing and Resource Management
  • Head for the Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management
Lisa M. Tucker, PhD as a licensed architect, NCIDQ and Virginia Certified Interior Designer, holds both LEED BD + C and WELL professional accreditations. She is a professor at Virginia Tech and teaches courses on biophilic and sustainable design and upper level design studios. She holds degrees in Architecture and Architectural History from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia in Architectural Studies. Dr. Tucker was honored as the 2016 IIDA Educator of the Year as well as by Design Intelligence as one of the Most Admired Design Educators in 2010 and 2017. Lisa Tucker, Professor and Head for the Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management

Lisa McNair

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Engineering Education

Lora Beeken

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director
  • Contact Director

LTC Daniel Harrison

Job Titles:
  • Executive Officer

Lucas Parrish

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Lydia Patton

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Philosophy

Maaz Gardezi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Sociology

Maggie Cowell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

MAJ Tyler Spadine

Job Titles:
  • Asst. Professor of Military Science, Military Science

Major Williams Hall


Marie Trimmer


Mark Barrow

Job Titles:
  • Professor, History

Mark Elghossain

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Development for Leadership Gifts
  • Assistant Director of Leadership Gifts

Marty Wyatt

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Coordinator

María del Carmen Caña Jiménez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee

Matthew R. Goodrum

Matthew Goodrum's research focuses on the history of paleoanthropology and theories of human origins. He investigate the relationships between the natural sciences, such as geology and biology, and human sciences such as anthropology and archaeology.

Matthew Vollmer

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director of M.F.a. Program

Matthew Wisnioski

Job Titles:
  • Director of Graduate Studies
Matthew Wisnioski studies the interplay between expertise and imagination in science, technology, and innovation. Through historical and ethnographic research, his work has explored the relationship between engineering activism in the 1960s and broad transformations in the meaning of technology; how scientists, engineers, and designers collaborate; and how "innovation" came to shape American life over the 20th and 21st centuries. An advocate for transdisciplinary critical participation, he has collaborated in a multiyear initiative to reimagine and remake engineering education at Virginia Tech and developed innovative STS courses that aim to cultivate reflective practitioners. He is currently exploring the role of multimedia in the rise of "STEM" education via a history of The Magic School Bus.

Mauro Caraccioli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

Melanie Kiechle

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • History

Melissa Coburn

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Michael Webb

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Advancement

Molly Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Scholarships Coordinator

Monamie Haines

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
Monamie Bhadra Haines's internationally comparative work examines technopolitics, activism and how they might illuminate the workings of nonliberal democracy in the areas of energy transitions and pandemic management in the so-called Global South. She also pursues comparative research on pedagogical practices in European engineering education.

Monica Kimbrell

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean ( UAA )
  • Associate Dean for
  • Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Monique Dufour

Job Titles:
  • Collegiate Assistant Professor, History
  • Medicine and Society Minor Director

Mr. Buck Kellogg

Job Titles:
  • Recruiting Operations Officer

Mr. Clay Gatts

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Operations Officer

Mr. Greg Calvert

Job Titles:
  • Military Science Instructor, Military Science I / Mr. Greg Calvert, Military Science Instructor, Military Science I

Mr. John Harris

Job Titles:
  • Logistics Technician

Mr. Mike Klossner

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Assistant

Mrs. Debra Harry

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Administrative and Program Specialist

Mrs. Jacklyn Jones

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Assistant

Mrs. Wendi McBride-Rentschler

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Assistant

Ms. Julie Gunion

Job Titles:
  • Supply Specialist

MSG Brown

MSG Jeremy Brown enlisted in the Army in September 2008 as an 11B Infantryman. He completed one station unit training (OSUT) and the Basic Airborne Course at Ft. Benning, GA. Upon completing Initial Entry Training and Airborne School, he was assigned to 1-504th PIR, 1 BCT, 82nd Airborne Division. SFC Brown spent four years in the Red Devils deploying in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. MSG Brown's next assignment was 1-501 PIR, 4th BCT, 25th ID at Fort Richardson Alaska. MSG Brown served as a Fire Team Leader and Squad Leader during this time. He participated in multiple training exercises in the INDO PACOM theater including Operation Talisman Sabre in Australia. He later served as a DA-selected Recruiter in North Texas for 4 years, where he completed a bachelor's Degree in Business Administration. His most recent assignment was in 2-504th PIR, 1 BCT, 82nd ABN DIV. MSG Brown spent three years as a Platoon Sergeant, participating in 3 no-notice deployments as part of the Army's Immediate Response Force. In January 2020, MSG Brown mustered and outloaded his Platoon in less than 18 hours to deploy to central Iraq to provide security for coalition forces in response to Iranian aggression in the region. Later that summer, he again rapidly deployed to the National Capital Region to provide support for Civil Authorities defending National Monuments against rioters in the city. Finally, In August of 2021, MSG Brown's Platoon was hand-selected to be among the first to land at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Throughout this mission, he played a critical role in defending the airport against enemy activity and providing security for history's largest Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO). Prior to receiving an assignment to the New River Battalion, MSG Brown was selected to serve as the Company First Sergeant for A CO 2-504th PIR. He served in this position from July 2022 to August 2023. MSG Brown's military education includes the Senior Leader Course, Advanced Leaders Course, Warrior Leader Course, Pathfinder School, Jumpmaster School, Airborne School, Combat Lifesaver Course, and Army Recruiter Course. His awards and decorations include the Combat Infantryman's Badge, Expert Infantryman's Badge, Pathfinder Torch, Master Parachutist Badge, Senior Parachutist Badge, Parachutist Badge, Excellence in Competition Badge, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal (6 OLC), Army Achievement Medal (6 OLC), Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Citation and Army Superior Unit Award

Nadine Sinno

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Nate Surrey

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Neal Kegley

Job Titles:
  • IT Support Manager
  • IT Support Specialist for the Office of the Dean
Neal Kegley IT Support Specialist for the Office of the Dean nkegley@vt.edu 540-232-8699 IT Support Manager Primary Areas Served: Office of the Dean, Political Science, Center for Humanities 116 LAHS Building Phone: 540-232-8699 nkegley@vt.edu

Nick Copeland

Job Titles:
  • History

Nick Goedert


Nicole Conner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Treasurer of the Executive Committee
  • Fiscal Technician

Olarotimi Ponder

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Pamela Teaster

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
  • Program Area Coordinator

Paroma Wagle

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning

Patrick Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Patti J. Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee

Paul Quigley

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies 405 Major Williams Hall Phone: 540-231-9090 pquigley@vt.edu

Paul Spaulding

Job Titles:
  • Engineering and Studio

Paul Springer

Job Titles:
  • Contact Department Head
  • Department Head
  • Head of the Department of Human Development and Family Science

Peter Doolittle

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee

Philip R. Olson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee
Philip Olsen's work engages with bioethics and body studies, death studies, women's and gender studies, and social epistemology. He is currently working on writing projects related to public deathcare policy and the environment. He has worked with graduate students on a variety of topics, including death studies and material culture, cultural studies of diamonds, technology and religion, electronic medical records, cultural and political theory, healthcare ethics, epistemology, and several other topics.

Phoebe Peterson

Job Titles:
  • International Studies Academic Advisor

Priya Dixit

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Honors and Awards Committee

Qin Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Engineering Education

Rachel Fitzgerald

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee
  • Global Education Office

Rachel M. Scott

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Department of Religion and Culture
  • Contact Chair
  • Department Chair
Saul Halfon, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society Saul Halfon, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society

Randa Freeborn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Advancement Associate

Rebecca J. Hester

Rebecca Hester's research examines the social, political, and scientific implications of preempting, preventing, and eradicating "biological danger." She is currently working on a book project that asks what and who constitutes biological danger in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The answer she comes up with has less to do with commonly identified threats-viruses, laboratory leaks, and spillover events- and more to do with the "pathogenic entanglements" between our scientific understandings of infectious disease, inflammatory environments, and long-standing social inequities.

Rebecca Weaver-Hightower


Renee Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Practice
Renee Walsh is an Assistant Professor of Practice in residential environments in the Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management at Virginia Tech. Renee is a licensed Interior Designer, NCIDQ Certificate holder and has professional accreditations in ASID, IDEC, and NKBA. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice, study abroad coordinator and teaches studio courses in residential interior design, history of architecture, furniture and interior design, and art and design for consumers at Virginia Tech. She holds a Master's of Science and Bachelor's degree in Interior Design from Florida State University.

Rhonda Hawley

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources & Graduate Studies Coordinator

Richard Burian

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Richard F. Hirsh

Job Titles:
  • Professor Specialties: Technology Science Research Methods
  • Professor, History

Richard Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Richard Shryock

Job Titles:
  • Program Director
  • Program Co - Director

Robert Efird

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Robert P. Stephens

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Sam Cook

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Honors and Awards Committee
  • History

Sandy Smith

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant to the Director

Sarah Castle - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Human Resources
  • Human Resources Director
  • Director of HR

Sarah Collins

Job Titles:
  • Grants Specialist

Sarah Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Secretary of the Executive Committee
  • Graduate Coordinator
  • Undergraduate Coordinator

Sarah Jarrett

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor
  • Professional Advisor

Sarah Plummer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

Sarah Turner

Job Titles:
  • Director of Alumni Relations
  • Director of Alumni Relations for the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Saul Halfon

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society
  • Contact Chair
  • Department Chair
Saul Halfon works in the political sociology of science and technology, with a focus on the technical and sense-making practices of policy institutions, conceptions and mechanisms of public engagement, and practices of interdisciplinarity. His primary research emphasizes controversial science and technology issues, and the relations between authoritative and silenced voices in such disputes, leading to projects on international population policy, international GM food controversies, controversies over depleted uranium, and discursive practices in security and development policies. His current project focuses on the regulation of food risk and danger at the USDA.

Sean Sidky

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee

Shaila Mehra

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Member of the Diversity Committee
  • Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Associate Professor of Practice
Shaila Mehra, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Sociology

Sharon Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the International Initiatives Committee

Sharon Zinn

Job Titles:
  • Contact Health Coordinator

Sherri Albert

Job Titles:
  • HR Coordinator

Sonja D. Schmid

Job Titles:
  • NCR Graduate Studies Co - Director
Sonja Schmid's research includes examining the interface of national energy policies, technological choices, and nonproliferation concerns. Her most recent NSF-supported research project examined the challenges of globalizing nuclear emergency response. She teaches courses in social studies of technology, science and technology policy, socio-cultural studies of risk, energy policy, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Sonya Murdock

Job Titles:
  • Office Coordinator

Stacy Vogt Yuan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Stefanie Hofer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Stephanie Stallings

Job Titles:
  • Business Coordinator

Sylvester Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Director of the Center for the Humanities

Syrenthia Robinson


Tamara Sutphin

Job Titles:
  • Program Support Technician

Tammy Jo Guynn

Job Titles:
  • Senior Program Support Technician

Tasia Persson

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair
  • Dean
  • Executive Assistant
  • Tasia Persson Executive Assistant

Thomas Staley

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Timothy W. Luke

Job Titles:
  • Contact Chair
  • Department Chair
  • University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science
  • University Distinguished Professor, Political Science

Tinting Zhao

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Toni Calasanti

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee
  • Director of Graduate Studies

Tonisha Lane

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Diversity Committee

Travis Webster

Job Titles:
  • Contact Director
  • Director / Writing Center

Tyechia Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, English

Vicki Baker

Job Titles:
  • Fiscal Technician

Victoria Lael

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies

Vinodh Venkatesh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Honors and Awards Committee

Wendy Hodge

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Wendy Parker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Promotion & Tenure Committee

Yang Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Grants Advisory Committee

Yannis Stivachtis

Job Titles:
  • Contact Director
  • Jean Monnet Chair

Yuliya Minkova

Job Titles:
  • Program Director