With rapid advances in artificial intelligence sparking urgent global debates about human labor, technology access, and ...

Following a national search, Smith College has named ej seibert ’08 as its next Vice President for Equity and Inclusion.

It allowed me to begin to imagine a career as an academic and doing what I came to specialize in, which is qualitative ...

Daniel K. Gardner specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of premodern China and the environment in China today.

Steven Williams’ laboratory focuses on research designed to elucidate the molecular biology of the parasites that cause Neglected Tropical Diseases—diseases that afflict the poorest billion people on ...

Paula J. Giddings is Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor Emerita of Africana Studies. She is the author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America; In Search of ...

Since its establishment in 1962, the Smith Medal has been awarded to more than 200 alums, each of whom has exemplified “the ...

Sara Pruss’ career in geology began as an undergraduate at the University of Rochester. Her interest in field­-based research led her to the laboratory of David Bottjer at the University of Southern ...

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 ...

John Connolly became a member of the Smith philosophy department in 1973. His current research interests are in medieval philosophy (especially Meister Eckhart), philosophy of mind, the tradition of ...

Jill de Villiers has authored and edited four books about language acquisition and numerous chapters and journal articles, most of them on the acquisition of complex syntax in preschoolers. She is now ...

Michael Gorra came to Smith in 1985, and teaches classes on the 19th- and 20th-century novel. He is now working on The Storytellers, a comparative study of 19th-century short fiction, from Goethe to ...