Col Dimitrova-Grajzl is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Business at the Virginia Military Institute and a non-resident visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She has worked at VMI since 2011. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also holds a Master’s degree from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor’s Degree from Wittenberg University. Her teaching and research focus on the economics of institutions, American Indian economic development, law and economics, post-socialist economies and politics, and economic history