Courtney Irene Powell Thomas
Collegiate Assistant Professor
- Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Department of Political Science
527A Major Williams Hall (0130)
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Courtney Irene Powell Thomas, a collegiate assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, focuses her research on food politics. She is currently working on a study of hunger in America as well as an investigation of the linkages between the international chocolate trade and genocide in the Ivory Coast.
Dr. Thomas is working on a book-length project on the politics of food labeling in the United States. She has presented her research at conferences in Ljubljana, Slovenia; Salzburg, Austria; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, DC; Urbana, Illinois; and Austin, Texas.
