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 ...

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

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 ...

Kevin Shea focuses on organic chemistry. His lab uses organic synthesis to investigate new methods for carbon­-carbon bond formation and to develop syntheses of biologically active molecules.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...