LEXINGTON, Va. Feb. 12, 2026 — 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 Eurasia Group (IGA), a nonprofit research and public education organization focused on geopolitics. Webb’s tenure as IGA fellow will run until December 2026. Throughout the year, she and other IGA fellows will participate in policy-focused discussions, professional development workshops, and publish public-facing research.

Additionally, Webb’s article, “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, which examines the history of corporate reform and anti-apartheid activism through the lens of South African labor and global worker movements, may be read here.  

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.  

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