Charles Calderwood awarded faculty fellowship
Charles Calderwood, associate professor of psychology in the College of Science, has been honored with appointment as the Leo and Melva Harris Faculty Fellow by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
The Leo and Melva Harris Faculty Fellowship was established by the College of Science Roundtable Advisory Board in 2021 in memory of long-time member Leo Harris and in honor of his wife, Melva. This fellowship aims to elevate the national and international prominence of the College of Science by supporting the recruitment, development, and retention of exceptional tenured and tenure-track faculty.
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2017, Calderwood founded the Work Stress and Recovery Lab upon his arrival at the university. His interdisciplinary and internationally renowned research focuses on understanding how employees perceive, react to, and recover from work stress in the context of the increasingly blurred boundaries between work and non-work life that characterize employment in the modern workforce.
Calderwood’s research program has received approximately $2.4 million in external funding with support from federal agencies including the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Science Foundation.
Calderwood has a multitude of peer-reviewed publications in applied psychology journals and many invited presentations to academic, practitioner, and government stakeholder audiences both nationally and internationally,.
He was elected a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 2024, serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and serves as editorial board member for multiple other top-tier peer-reviewed applied psychology and organizational research journals.
Calderwood received his bachelor’s degree from Tulane University and his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology.
