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 ...

Lamont Dining has the only kitchen on campus without ingredients containing the 9 major allergens (wheat, milk, egg, soy, fish, shellfish, sesame, peanuts, and tree nuts) or gluten. It is a designated ...

(NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – February 2, 2026) Two-time National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward, hailed as the standout writer of her generation, will visit Smith College on Wednesday, March 25, to deliver a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Margaret Sarkissian teaches courses in ethnomusicology and anthropology. Her field research has focused primarily on the Malaysian-Portuguese and Straits Chinese communities of Melaka (Malacca), ...

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 ...

Lester Tomé, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Dance and an affiliate of the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program at Smith College. Among the courses he teaches are Dance ...

James Lowenthal's research interests include high redshift galaxies, Lyman break galaxies, starburst galaxies, millimeter and submillimeter galaxies, galaxy formation and evolution, QSO absorption ...