Assistant professor receives fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies

Sonia Hirt, of Blacksburg, assistant professor of urban affairs and planning in Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies, has received a $25,000 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Hirt will use the funds during a research leave this spring to study the social and spatial characteristics of the post-communist suburbs in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.