Roger Laverty
Senior Lecturer
Rory Laverty is the author of two books of nonfiction: ALUMINUM ALLEY: The American Pilots Who Flew Over the Himalayas and Helped Win World War II (Stackpole, 2023) and DELIVERY MAN: The Enemy-Alien Nisei Translator Who Saved His Battalion (Skyhorse, coming July 22, 2025). Laverty is an investigative reporter who since 1998 has covered law enforcement, the military, major crimes and the justice system for publications such as the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsweek, and the Oakland Tribune. His investigative reporting has exposed criminal and sexual misconduct in local police departments, the Marine Corps and the United Nations. His stories have resulted in criminal charges, major policy changes, and in one case, the firing of the senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, for a pattern of sexual misconduct against the men he worked with, including a British MP, or member of Parliament. A graduate of UNC Wilmington's MFA program in creative nonfiction, Laverty is now a senior lecturer in the English Department, where he teaches journalism, interviewing, research, and writing.
Education
BA in English, Amherst College
MFA in Creative Nonfiction, UNC Wilmington