Four distinguished leaders in the arts, academia, health and wellness, social justice, and innovation will be awarded honorary degrees at Smith’s 147th Commencement on Sunday, May 18. In a tradition ...

Katherine M. Kinnaird is a computational researcher working at the intersection of machine learning, mathematics and cultural analytics. The central driving force behind her work is the building and ...

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 ...

Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor Emerita of acting and directing at Smith, a Fulbright Scholar in Costa Rica, Fulbright Senior Specialist in Pakistan, Romania and Hong Kong, an actress, director and ...

Matt Donovan is the author of two collections of poetry—Vellum (Mariner, 2007) and Rapture & the Big Bam (Tupelo Press , 2017)—as well as the nonfiction collection of lyric essays A Cloud of Unusual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In addition to being a professor of sociology, Ginetta Candelario is a member of the Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program (LALS), which she has directed several times, most recently from 2011 ...

Colin Hoag is a multispecies ethnographer interested in what plants can teach us about the conditions of life on earth. He holds doctorates in cultural anthropology and biological sciences, and ...

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 ...