Tiana Clark, Smith College’s Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence, has been named a finalist for the 2025 National Book ...

Stephanie Jarvi Steele ’07, returned to Smith and joined the psychology department in 2022. Steele directs the Behavioral Assessment of Self-Injury Lab (BASIL), which aims to further elucidate risk ...

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 ...

L. David Smith is a marine ecologist in the Smith College Department of Biological Sciences and a member of the Environmental Science and Policy Program. His research examines marine biological ...

Merrie Bergmann specializes in logic, philosophy of logic and language, and computational linguistics.

Evie Shockley, whose latest collection suddenly we (Wesleyan University Press, 2023) was named a National Book Award finalist, emerged from Nashville’s cultural landscape to become one of America’s ...

Susan Stratton Sayre's research uses numerical simulation and dynamic optimization techniques to investigate water policy in a variety of settings. Her recent projects focus on the downside risk of ...

Maren Buck is interested in organic and polymer chemistry and the assembly of macromolecular materials useful for applications in medicine. Her lab is currently working on two primary projects. The ...

Chris Aiken works as a dancer, performer, dancemaker and teacher. His research seeks to uncover the relations between dance, poetics, science, philosophy, ecology and design. For many years, he has ...

Elizabeth Klarich is a Latin American archaeologist specializing in Andean prehistory, with a regional focus on the Lake Titicaca Basin of Peru and Bolivia. Her theoretical interests include the ...

Introducing The Next 150 Pledge—students with family incomes of up to $150,000 pay no tuition. For more than 150 years, Smith College has worked to break down barriers to exceptional education. By ...

Donald C. Baumer has been a member of the faculty of Smith College since 1977. His early work focused on employment and training policy, culminating in the book The Politics of Unemployment, followed ...