Reynolds business journalism professor Alecia Swasy is retiring from Washington & Lee University after teaching there for the past decade.
Her last day at the Virginia-based university is June 30.
Swasy said she plans to move to the Pittsburgh area to be closer to her extended family, including four sisters. She has started researching a book about World War II nurses who were stationed in the China-Burma-India theater. Her mother, who lived to be 103, was one of those brave women at the 14th Evac Hospital in the jungle.
She previously taught at the University of Illinois.
Swasy joined the Illinois faculty in fall 2014 as the Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism. Swasy has a journalism degree from Pennsylvania State University, and an M.A. in Journalism and Ph.D. in journalism studies from the University of Missouri.
Swasy worked professionally for The Wall Street Journal, The Virginian-Pilot, The St. Petersburg Times and Dow Jones Newswires. She has covered industries from consumer products and food to energy and economic development.
She has published four books, including “Soap Opera: The Inside Story of Procter & Gamble,” and “Changing Focus: Kodak and the Battle to Save a Great America Company.”
