Smith College professor Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor says studying the past is crucial to understanding who we are today A desire ...

That blend of determination and flexibility was crucial in the development of NurtureHer, a nonprofit Boakye founded to ...

Jay L. Garfield teaches in the philosophy department and directs Tibetan studies in India program. He is also visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, professor of ...

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor specializes in 19th-century U.S. history and race. Her first book, Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War, is a social history of black ...

Dana Leibsohn’s current research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern ...

Martha Ackelsberg joined the Smith faculty in 1972, was appointed Five College 40th Anniversary Professor in 2006, and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in 2007. She retired at the end of 2014. At Smith, ...

Bozena Welborne teaches courses on the Middle East, political economy, and women’s political participation. Welborne’s book, Women, Money, and Political Participation in the Middle East (Palgrave, ...

Hans Rudolf Vaget is professor emeritus of German studies and comparative literature at Smith, where he taught from 1967 to 2004. He received his academic training at the universities of Munich and ...

In addition to holding the Janet Wright Ketcham 1953 Chair in Middle East Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, Steven Heydemann is a nonresident senior fellow in the ...

Mehammed Amadeus Mack earned his doctorate in French and comparative literature from Columbia University, where he completed a dissertation titled "Immigration and Sexual Citizenship: Gender, ...

The provost’s office strives to enable faculty to thrive at every career stage through faculty development offerings that provide mentoring and support, foster equity and inclusion, and build ...

Sarah Mazza is a hard-rock geologist who began her career at the University of North Carolina. Torn between furthering her education in topics of petrology or structural geology, she ended up at ...