Maddie Tepper

Dr. Maddie Tepper is an International Student Advisor at Cranwell International Center at Virginia Tech. Maddie is an interdisciplinary scholar, activist, and artist who earned their Ph.D. in the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) program, as well as their M.A. in political science at Virginia Tech. Their scholarship uses media, culture, and performance to explore the vibrant transnational connections that emerge between otherwise-disparate marginalized identities through our everyday lived, embodied experiences under global systemic inequity, even as the specific ways we experience inequity and our locations in the world differ vastly in important ways. This perspective carries through to their work as an international student advisor.
Prior to joining Cranwell International Center, Maddie shared their longstanding passion for intercultural and international education as an instructor of courses in international studies, global political economy, and political science at Virginia Tech and Arizona State University for over seven years. They also previously served as the research and instruction librarian at New River Community College. Before going to grad school, Maddie worked in public policy and they were a principal writer on a successful proposal for Washington D.C. to become a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO).
In their spare time, Maddie loves watching movies, going to concerts and museums with friends, exploring personal expression through fashion and makeup, cooking and trying new foods, painting with oil paints and watercolors, working on interior design projects, and spending time with their two Siamese cats.