Dr. Fine joined the Virginia Tech Faculty in 1979 as a joint-appointment in the Center for Programs in the Humanities and the Department of Communication Studies. From 1993-1999, she was the coordinator for he Appalachian Studies Program. Following that, she served as director of the Humanities Program in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies from 1999 to 2003 and was the inaugural chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies from 2003 to 2007. In 2007, she returned to leadership in the humanities, eventually co-founding and co-directing the Master of Arts Program in Material Culture and Public Humanities. In this role, she helped develop its curriculum, set policies and procedures, recruited and advised students, designed and taught new courses, and was a mentor to the next generation of museum, non-profit, public humanities professionals. As reflected in the collection, she also led and continued to maintain efforts to preserve Solitude and its remaining outbuilding, renamed the Fraction Family House in 2019. Dr. Fine retired from Virginia Tech in 2015 as Professor Emerita of Humanities.

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