Priya Dixit

Priya Dixit serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science within the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, with her office located at 511 Major Williams Hall (0130), 220 Stanger Street.

Her research expertise centers on critical security studies, specializing in terrorism analysis through qualitative methodologies including discourse analysis and ethnography, while integrating postcolonial theory into International Relations frameworks. Current projects examine the historical-comparative role of Gurkhas in global security architectures, visualization strategies of the 'war on terror' across social actors, and U.S. national security policy regarding threat conceptualization and state utilization of terrorism discourse.

Professor Dixit maintains active scholarly engagement through publications addressing intersections of race, popular culture, and far-right extremism in American contexts, alongside comparative analyses of state-terrorist dynamics in Nepal and Northern Ireland.