Mattie Webb

Mattie C. Webb, PhD, is an assistant professor of history at the Virginia Military Institute, specializing in US foreign relations, labor, and the global politics of race and inequality. As an IGA nonresident fellow, Mattie will bring a historical lens to contemporary debates on sanctions, corporate power, and economic statecraft. Her current book projects examine sanctions and anti-apartheid labor movements in both the United States and South Africa at the end of the Cold War. She holds a PhD in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and recently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. She also maintains an affiliation with Rhodes University’s Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit in South Africa.