Laura A. Belmonte

Laura A. Belmonte is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and Professor of History at Virginia Tech. She received her A.B. in History and Political Science from the University of Georgia and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia. She is author of The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War (Penn, 2008); co-author of Global Americans: A Transnational U.S. History (Cengage, 2018); and editor of Speaking of America: Readings in U.S. History (2nd edition, Cengage, 2006).