The Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment awarded up to $30,000 to five interdisciplinary research teams to address critical, individual, and societal concerns affecting people and places.

Look at the world from a global perspective. Gain a strong foundation in the liberal arts while learning to gather evidence, think critically, evaluate sources, and communicate your findings. Our ...

Dr. Edward Polanco is a Kuskatanchanej scholar of Mesoamerica. Although he was born in Los Angeles, CA, his ancestors are from Kuskatan (now western and central El Salvador) and his parents fled their ...

Mark Barrow, a professor in the Department of History since 2010 and a member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1992, served as chair of the department from 2010 to 2019. Barrow is the author of two ...

Cayce Myers is a professor of public relations and director of graduate studies at the School of Communication. His work focuses on laws, regulations and ethics that affect public relations practice.

Examine the ways religious and cultural values work in human lives around the globe. Investigate how time and place shape communities and traditions. We defamiliarize the familiar and get to know the ...

Dedicated to partnering with migrants and refugees, the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies brings together faculty, students, and community members to strive for a better world. We ...

Our department publishes cutting-edge research and trains students to work with individuals of all ages. We focus on child and adolescent development, adult development and aging, family studies, ...

Nadine A. Sinno is a professor of Arabic and director of the Arabic program in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include modern ...

Katalin Parti focuses her research on both the offender and victim sides of cybercrime, sexual violence, and online manipulative scams targeting older people. She is a certified mediator and holds a ...

The advertising major prepares you to craft and deliver persuasive messages through paid media. Coursework explores theories, practices, and ethics of advertising. You learn about consumer behavior, ...

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 Institute for ...