Maj. Mattie Webb, assistant professor in the Department of History at Virginia Military Institute, was recently named a nonresident fellow with the Institute for Global Affairs at Eu r a sia Group ( IGA) , a nonprofit research and public education organization focused on geopolitics.
Webb’s tenure as IGA fellow will run through December. She and other IGA fellows will participate in policy-focused discussions, professional development workshops, and publish public-facing research.
An article authored by Webb, “Diplomacy at Work: The South African Worker, U.S. Multinationals, and Transnational Racial Solidarity,” was recently published in Enterprise & Society, a journal focused on historical relations between businesses and their larger political, cultural, institutional, social and economic contexts, and serves as a preview of her forthcoming book. The article examines the history of corporate reform and anti-apartheid activism through the lens of South African labor and global worker movements.
Webb, a Rockbridge County native, has been teaching at VMI since August. Her fields of expertise include Constitutional history, diplomatic history, labor history and modern Africa.
