As the pandemic wore on, I became fascinated by how people’s attitudes toward it were changing. I wanted to learn more about ...

The study identifies an important paradox about grading at Smith: Students still want to be graded on their performance and rewarded for individual merit. But they also want a classroom feedback ...

The Smith College Alum Directory is now The Network! There, you can update your information so you can stay in touch with classmates and students, network and make new connections, and choose how you ...

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A desire to learn about the history of Black women and a passion for storytelling led Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor to study Africana studies for a brief time as a grad student. “I dreamed of writing ...

Justin Cammy is associate dean of the faculty, dean for academic development, and professor of Jewish studies and of comparative literature. For many years, he served as professor, by courtesy, 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 ...

Michael Barresi’s research interests are focused on how glial cells help wire the nervous system in the embryonic zebrafish brain. His lab discovered that astroglial cells provide a substrate for ...

Anna Kapambwe Mwaba is an assistant professor of Government. Her research focuses on the role of African international and regional organizations in election observation and democracy promotion in ...

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 ...

Randall Bartlett has been a professor of economics at Smith since 1979. Before then, he taught at Williams College, the University of Washington and Stanford University, and served as an economist ...

Lazaro has published on Spanish fiction writers of the 20th century, such as Ramón del Valle Inclán, Luis Martín-Santos, Blanca de los Ríos, Azorín, Rosa Chacel and Bernardo Atxaga. She is working on ...