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 ...

While at Smith, Donna Robinson Divine taught a variety of courses on Middle East politics. Fluent in Hebrew, Arabic and Turkish, she has held visiting appointments at Yale, Harvard and the Hebrew ...

Dewey Hall 302 (Third-floor walk-up. Accessible meetings in Dewey Hall 208.) In the comparative literature program, Fulton teaches courses on gender and madness in literature of Africa and the ...

Michael Thurston is the Helen Means Professor of English Language and Literature. Since his arrival at Smith in 2000, he has taught courses on 20th-century poetry in English, modernism, American ...

Samantha Torquato’s research currently focuses on elucidating the molecular biology of parasites that infect endangered wildlife. The laboratory studies parasitic nematodes from land mammals (such as ...

Colin Hoag studies what plants say about the conditions of life on earth. He holds doctorates in cultural anthropology and biological sciences, and teaches courses on the Anthropocene, botanophilia, ...

Kate Soper is a composer and vocalist whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the continuums of expressivity and intelligibility, and the eclectic landscape ...

Erica Tibbetts received a master's in sport psychology from Ithaca College in 2011 and completed her doctorate in exercise and sport psychology at Temple University in 2015. Her work is dedicated to ...

Sam Intrator serves as the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Education and Child Study at Smith College, where he helped start the Education Initiative and the Mindich Educational Fellowship. His ...

Maleka Donaldson’s courses focus on the learning sciences and on STEM teaching methods at the elementary level. In her research, she studies teacher and student responses to making mistakes, including ...

Traci-Ann Wint earned a doctorate in African and African diaspora studies (AADS) in 2019 from UT Austin. She also holds a micro-master’s in instructional design and technology from the University of ...

Jai Hamid Bashir's debut poetry chapbook, Desire/Halves, ends with: “Hawks take back the air— / and fill fevered throats with mother’s milk. Ma says drink / this in Urdu. I understand. Keep this ...