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Dear Club and Affinity Group Officers,
Dedicated to bringing the best of Smith College to your
hometown, the Speakers Program is one of our most popular
outreach programs. It has enabled Smith clubs and affinity groups
all over the United States and abroad to engage with outstanding
faculty, administrators, alumnae, and students on a broad range of
topics in a wide selection of disciplines.
The speakers listed in this brochure have expressed great
interest in sharing their research and scholarship with Smith
alumnae. Whether in the form of lectures, discussions, or
performances, speakers also help to keep you informed about
the latest campus initiatives. If you have any questions, ideas,
or comments about speakers or programming, please contact
the Alumnae Outreach Office, at 800-526-2023, ext. 4, or alumclub@email.smith.edu.
All best wishes for a great year,
Carrie Cadwell Brown, M.Ed ’82
Executive Director, AASC |
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- After initial contact, all arrangements are to be coordinated between the speaker and your club
or group. It is your responsibility to keep the speaker and the Alumnae Association informed about event plans.
- The Alumnae Association provides round trip air travel, ground transportation, overnight hotel accommodations, and meal expense reimbursement for speakers.
- Speaker availability varies depending on prior commitments and other related factors. Requests are
filled accordingly.
- If you are interested in a specific speaker or topic not listed, please e-mail the Alumnae Outreach
Office at alumclub@email.smith.edu or call (413)585-2040 or (800)526-2023 ext. 4.
- Please do not contact the speaker.
- The Alumnae Association would appreciate feedback on the Speakers Program, and will contact you
after the event. Please evaluate the Faculty Speaker Program following an event using the appropriate
form below.
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| Afro-American Studies |
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Adrianne R. Andrews
lecturer anthropology and afro-american studies, Advisor for Equity
Complaints
Afro-American Folklore: Images of Women in Afro-American Folklore;
Gender Relations as Reflected in Afro-American Folklore |
Andrea Hairston '74
l.wolff kahn 1931 professor of theatre and Afro-American Studies
Minstrel Shows and Performing the Other; MINDSCAPE: Speculative Fiction,
Prophetic Artists, and Rehearsing the Future; Reinventing the Classics:
Shakespeare in the 19th Century |
Louis Wilson
professor of afro-american studies
Issues Facing Modern South Africa |
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| American Studies |
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Daniel Horowitz
mary huggins gamble professor of american studies
Betty Friedan ’42 and Smith College; The Anxieties of Affluence
in Recent U.S. History |
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
sydenham clark parsons professor of history and american studies
Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Censorship
in 19th-Century America; Why Do We Feel Good? Why Do We Feel Bad?
Understanding Illness and Emotion from a 19th-Century Perspective |
Richard H. Millington
sylvia dlugasch bauman professor of american studies and professor
of english language and literature
American Literature, the Liberal Arts College, and the Invention of Leisure |
Donald Leonard Robinson
Charles N. Clark Professor Emeritus of Government and American
studies
The President and the Constitution; Exporting Constitutional Democracy:
Why Japan and Iraq Were Different; Town Meeting Democracy: How Did It
Develop and Does It Still Work?
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| Anthropology |
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Adrianne R. Andrews
lecturer anthropology and afro-american studies, Advisor for
Equity
Complaints
Afro-American Folklore: Images of Women in Afro-American Folklore;
Gender Relations as Reflected in Afro-American Folklore |
Donald Joralemon
professor of anthropology
Native South Americans; Shamanism; Medical Anthropology (Ethnomedicine);
Medical Ethics |
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| Art |
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John Davis
Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Development, alice pratt
brown professor of art
American Art at Smith College |
Craig M. Felton
professor of Art
Will tailor topic to suit audience |
Caroline M. Houser
professor emeritus of art
New Discoveries: Revisions in the Art of Ancient Greece; Originals,
Copies, and Fakes; Did He Strip the Virgin Bare? A Mystery about the
Athena Statue in the Parthenon |
Linda Kim
visiting assistant professor of American art
American Women Artists; American Sculpture; Race in American and
European Modern Art; History of Museums; Art and Anthropology |
Chester Michalik
professor emeritus of art
Contemporary Urban Japan: A Visual Presentation |
Elliot Melville Offner
andrew w. mellon professor emeritus in the humanities; president,
national sculpture society
The Last Decade and New Work; Public Art; Student Work in the Book Arts;
Creating a Public Sculpture |
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| Biological Science |
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Margaret E. Anderson
professor of biological sciences
Neuroscience Flourishes at Smith College; Preparing for a
Career in the Health Profession
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elsie damon simonds professor emeritus of biological sciences
Victorian Gardens Lost and Found; Evolution in a Landscape: Smith
College Botanic Garden; The Botanic Garden: A Peculiar Institution;
Audubon's Garden: Botanical Illustration in The Birds of America |
Robert Dorit
associate professor of biological sciences
Breast Cancer; Growing Problem of Antibiotic Resistance; Bioterrorism;
Women and Science: What is Smith’s Role; Human Genome Project |
Adam Charles Hall
associate professor of biological sciences
Molecular Bases of Neurological Disorders; Molecular Bases of General
Anesthesia: The Highs and the Lows |
Virginia Hayssen
professor of biological sciences
Why White Cats are Often Deaf and Other Oddities of Coat Color |
Laura A. Katz
elsie damon simonds professor of biological sciences
The AEMES program at Smith College: Opening Doors to Women of Promise;
Our Microbial Planet: Changing Perspectives on the Tree of Life |
Robert B. Merritt
professor of biological sciences
Alfred Blakeslee and the Genetics of Taste |
Richard F. Olivo
professor of biological sciences and neuroscience (smith college);
associate director, derek bok center for teaching and learning
(harvard university)
Teaching with the Web: From E-Mail to Digital Video; Emotion in the Classroom:
Making Connections with Students |
Paulette Peckol
louise c. harrington professor in biological sciences
Finding Nemo: Ecology and Conservation of Coral Reef Fish; Hurricanes
and Global Warming: Now the Corals Really Are in Hot Water |
Stylanos P. Scordilis
PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE
PRESIDENT FOR FORD HALL
Ford Hall - Centers and Interdisciplinarity: A New Concept for the Liberal Arts;
Exercise and Gender – Are Male and Female Skeletal Muscles the Same? |
L. David Smith
associate professor of biological sciences
Biological Invasions, Particularly in Marine Ecosystems |
Stephen G. Tilley
myra m. sampson professor of biological sciences
Mountains, Molecules, and Salamanders: Discovering Biological
Diversity in the Appalachians |
Steven Williams
gates professor of biological sciences
Avian Influenza: Lessons from the Great Influenza of 1917; Neglected
Tropical Diseases or Why Developing Countries Remain Developing;
The North American Ferret Recovery Project; Tears of the Cheetah:
The Genetics of an Endangered Species |
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| Book Club Speakers |
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H. Robert Burger
achilles professor of geology
Bill McGuire Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet
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Justin Cammy
assistant professor of jewish studies, comparative literature,
middle east studies; director, program in jewish studies
Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policeman’s Union |
Donna Robinson Divine
morningstar family professor of jewish studies; professor of
government
Amos Oz A Tale of Love and Darkness |
Randy O. Frost
Harold Edward And Elsa Siipola Israel Professor of Psychology
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, (due out in Spring, 2010); Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive
Saving, Acquiring, and Hoarding, Oxford University Press (2007); Compulsive
Hoarding and Acquiring: Therapist Guide, Oxford University Press (2007)
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Joel S. Kaminsky
professor and co-director of jewish studies
Joel S. Kaminsky Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election |
Ellen Kaplan
Professor of Theatre
William Shakespeare The Tempest
Isabel Allende Eva Luna |
Sabina Knight
Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative literature
Yu Hua Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
Hong Ying Summer of Betrayal |
Maureen Mahoney
dean of the college
Karen Armstrong The Spiral Staircase |
Douglas Lane Patey
Sophia Smith Professor of English, Member of Smith's Program in
the history of science and technology
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall,
Vile Bodies |
Cornelia Pearsall
Associate Professor of english language & literature
Sylvia Plath at war in the Smith Archives
Oscar Wilde and Victorian Sexuality
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own
Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights |
Tom Riddell
Associate Dean of the COllege, Dean of the First-year Class, Associate
Professor of Economics
Alexandra Fuller Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood |
Sharon Cadman Seelig
roe/straut professor in the humanities, english language & literature
Natasha Trethewey Native Guard |
Pat Skarda
professor of english language and literature
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Geraldine Brooks March
Katharine Weber The Little Women |
Michael Thurston
Associate professor of english language and literature
Ellen Bryant Voigt Kyrie
James Joyce The Dead
Marjane Satrapi Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood |
Susan Van Dyne
Chair, program for the study of women and gender
Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace
Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
Sarah Waters The Night Watch |
Jennifer Walters
Dean of religious life
Meg Wolitzer The Ten-Year Nap
Annie Dillard The Maytrees |
Andrew S. Zimbalist
robert a. woods professor of economics
Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change
The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business
In the Best Interests of Baseball? The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig
National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World
Plays Soccer
May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy |
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| Chemistry |
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Kevin M. Shea
associate professor of chemistry
From the Moonstone to Organic Chemistry: Crystals in Detective Stories |
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| Comparative Literature |
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Margaret Bruzelius
dean of the senior class and the second-semester juniors
Can Girls Have Adventures? What Does it Mean to be a Hero in Young Adult
Fiction; Books: Ursula Le Guin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson
Burnett, Philip Pullman |
Katwiwa Mule
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of
African Studies
Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in
African Women's Drama |
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| Computer Science |
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Nicholas R. Howe
associate professor of computer science
Machine Vision: How Computers Can Understand the World Through
Images; Handwriting Recognition: From the Bodleian Library through
George Washington’s Letters |
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| East Asian Languages and Literatures |
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Jina Kim
assistant professor of east asian studies
Korea in the 21st Century: A Return to History?; Representation of North
Korea in South Korean Cinema; How Modern were Modern Girls?: Colonialism,
Gender, and Consumerism in Early 20th Century East Asia |
Sabina Knight
associate professor of chinese and comparative literature
What Americans See: The Politics of Chinese-English Literary Translation;
Cancer’s Revelations: Malignancies and Therapies in a Recent Chinese Novel;
Disability and Market Transition in Recent Chinese and Russian Fiction |
Thomas H. Rohlich
professor of japanese
Taking the First-Year Seminar Abroad: The Kyoto Interterm Trip |
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| Economics |
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Robert K. Buchele
professor of economics
The Mondragon Cooperatives: A Sabbatical Reseach Report
The Mondragon Cooperatives are a network of approximately 120
worker-owned enterprises employing around 47,000 worker-owners in
the Basque region of Spain. They are a Mecca of the cooperative movement
and researchers interested in viability of producer cooperatives in a highly
competitive globalized capitalist system. |
Mahnaz Mahdavi
professor of economics; director, women and financial independence
Women and Financial Independence |
Andrew S. Zimbalist
robert a. woods professor of economics
Economics of Sports, including College Sports and Title IX; Labor
Relations in Sports; Franchise Valuation and Strategies; League
Governance; Baseball, Football, Basketball, Nascar, Tennis |
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| Education and Child Study |
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Sue J.M. Freeman
professor of education and child study, psychologist
Women and Leadership; Women and Money; Women’s Transitions |
Richard F. Olivo
professor of biological sciences and neuroscience (smith college);
associate director, derek bok center for teaching and
learning (harvard university)
Teaching with the Web: From E-Mail to Digital Video; Emotion in the
Classroom: Making Connections with Students |
Cathy Weisman Topal
lecturer in visual arts education
Children, Clay, and Sculpture: The Power and Potential of Clay in the
Classroom; Thinking With a Line: A New Art and Literacy CD-ROM for Early
Childhood Educators |
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| Engineering |
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Andrew J. Guswa
associate professor of engineering
Bridges: The Art of Structural Design; Forest in the Clouds: The Water of
Monteverde, Costa Rica; Quenching Our Thirst: Sustainable Water Resources
for a Changing World; Can Hamlet Help Engineers? The Liberal Arts and
Engineering |
Susannah Howe
lecturer and design clinic director
Engineering Design Clinic: The Capstone Project Experience for Engineering
Students |
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| English Language and Literature |
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Ann Boutelle
Senior Lecturer of english language & literature, Founder of The
Poetry Center at Smith, Grace Hazard Conkling Poet in Residence
Creating a Poetry Center at Smith; Emily Dickinson's Manipulation of Space in
Her Poems
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Dean Flower
professor of english language & literature
Landscape, Ecology, and the Necessity of Poetry; Lolita and Censorship;
Inscribing the Oxbow: Local Landscape as Text |
Luc Gilleman
associate professor of english language & literature
Belgium: History, Politics, and Literature; Freud and Sherlock Holmes;
Modern and Contemporary Drama (British and American): Oscar Wilde,
Tennessee Williams, John Osborne, Eugene O’Neill, Harold Pinter,
Bernard Shaw; Sarah Kane, Yasmina Reza, Lars Norén |
Jefferson Hunter
Helen And Laura Shedd professor of english language & literature,
Professor of Film Studies
From Brighton Rock to The Singing Detective: British Crime Films |
Gillian Murray Kendall
associate professor of english language & literature
The Shakespeare Project; Popular Shakespeare; Queen Elizabeth I
and Self-Fashioning |
Richard H. Millington
sylvia dlugasch bauman professor of american studies, professor
of english
American Literature, the Liberal Arts College, and the Invention of Leisure |
William Allan Oram
helen means professor of english language & literature
Developments in English at Smith; The Utopias of Ursula K. LeGuin;
Teaching Science Fiction at Smith; Teaching Shakespeare |
Douglas Lane Patey
Sophia Smith Professor of English, member of smith's program in
the history of science and technology
Where Our Punctuation Came from (And Where it's Going); Historical
Reflections on How Authors Make their Money
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Sharon Cadman Seelig
roe/straut professor in the humanities, english language &
literature
Noticing: Or What You Can Do with an English Major; Reading the Earth:
Venturing Beyond the Classroom |
Patricia Lyn Skarda
professor of english language & literature
Telling and Retelling: Little Women, March, and The Little Women;
Possession by A.S. Byatt and Its Sources; King Lear and A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley |
Michael T. Thurston
professor of english language & literature
To Live Deliberately: The Function of Poetry at the Present Time |
Ellen Doré Watson
director of the poetry center; lecturer in english Language &
Literature
The Poetry Center at Smith: A Sampler of Poets and Programs;
This Sharpening (poetry reading from latest book, with commentary);
Shaking Loose/Shaping Up: A Poetry Workshop (making poems happen
and finding their form); Translator as Actress: Becoming Adélia (reading
and talk on translating Brazilian poet Adélia Prado) |
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| Environmental Science & Policy |
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Andrew J. Guswa
associate professor of engineering
Bridges: The Art of Structural Design; Forest in the Clouds: The Water of
Monteverde, Costa Rica; Quenching Our Thirst: Sustainable Water Resources
for a Changing World; Can Hamlet Help Engineers? The Liberal Arts and
Engineering |
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| Exercise and Sport Studies |
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Christine J. Davis
senior coach of Tennis
Tennis: A Lifetime Sport
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James H. Johnson
professor of exercise & sport studies
Analyzing Your Lifestyle: Fear or Fun; The Ancient Olympics’ Influence on
the Modern Games; From the 776 B.C. Greek Palestra to the Modern
Fitness Gym |
Christine M. Shelton
professor of exercise & sport studies; Co-Chair Project on Women &
Social Change
Women's Education Worldwide: Why Educate Women? Women and Sport;
International Sport Issues for Women; Coaching Education; Title IX; Women
and Leadership |
Donald Siegel
professor of exercise & sport studies
Project Coach: Youth Development Through an Innovative Urban Sports
Program |
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| French Studies |
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Anouk Alquier
Lecturer
French Popular Culture, France in the 21st Century; The French Identity;
Fact or Myth?; Teaching and Learning French at Smith |
Jonathan Gosnell
associate professor of french studies
France in America; America in France; French Empire and its Aftermath |
Ann Leone '71
professor of french studies and landscape studies
Reading literary gardens in French: French Studies and the study of
cultural landscapes at Smith |
Hélène Visentin
associate professor of french studies
Art and Politics in the French Renaissance: The King and the City; Court
Performances in the Age of Louis XIV; Baroque French Theater |
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| Geology |
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John Brady
mary e. moses professor of geology
The Geology of Smith College Revealed by Campus Excavations; Why
the Moon is White: Hands-OnMelting Experiment; Field Trip: The Geology
of (Club Location) |
Robert Burger
achilles professor of geology
What Does the Future Hold? An Overview of Natural Hazard Risk,
Including Rapid Climate Change; Global Warming: Using the Past to
Understand What the Future Holds |
Larry Meinert
professor in residence
What Makes Good Wine? The Connection Between Wine and Geology |
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| German Studies |
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Hans R. Vaget
helen and laura shedd professor emeritus, professor Emeritus of
comparative literature
Fateful Attraction: Hitler and Wagner; What is German About German Music?;
Anti-Semitism, Memory, and the Construction of German Culture in America;
The Operas of Wagner in Gilded-Age America; The Last Emperor of
Classical Music: Richard Strauss |
Joseph George McVeigh
Professor of German Studies
From Weimar to War: Popular Education and Propaganda in Germany 1928-1941.
This lecture is based on an exhibition McVeigh curated for the Rare Book Room
in the Neilson Library this last Spring. It examines one of the most widespread
forms of popular education in Germany during the late Weimar period - cigarette
card albums, and how they evolved into a widely popular propaganda medium
during the Third Reich; How Ozzie and Harriet Saved Europe After World War II |
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Martha A. Ackelsberg
william r. kenan jr. professor of government, Professor of the Study
of women and Gender
Who Votes? Who Cares?; Globalization Comes Home: Community
Activism at the U.S./Mexico Border; Making Democracy Work: Women’s
Community Activism and the Reconceptualization of Democratic Theory;
Teaching about the Politics of Wealth and Poverty |
Mlada Bukovansky
associate professor of government
The United Nations in World Politics; Perspectives on U.S. Hegemony in
World Politics; U.S./European Relations |
Donna Robinson Divine
morningstar family professor of jewish studies, professor
of government
Any aspect of Middle East politics, particularly on the Middle East
conflict, Iraq, Islamism, religious political activisms, and terrorism |
Alice L. Hearst
associate professor of government
The State, the Law, and the Family; Children’s Rights in Domestic
and International Law; Children, Adoption, and the Politics of Belonging:
Transnational/Transracial Adoption and Identity; The Boundaries of
Multiculturalism |
Donald Leonard Robinson
Charles N. Clark Professor Emeritus of Government and American
studies
The President and the Constitution; Exporting Constitutional Democracy:
Why Japan and Iraq Were Different; Town Meeting Democracy: How Did It
Develop and Does it Still Work?
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| History |
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Lester K. Little
dwight w. morrow professor emeritus of history
The Three Pandemics of Plague in History (So Far); The Middle
Ages Aren’t What They Used to Be |
Douglas Lane Patey
Sophia Smith Professor of English, Member of Smith's Program in
the history of science and technology
The Emergence of the Modern Division between the Arts and the Sciences;
The Secret Life of Isaac Newton, Alchemist |
Howard Allen Nenner
roe/straut professor emeritus in the humanities
Future of the British Monarchy; Elizabeth I’s Refusal to Marry; Regicide and
Memory; The Execution of Charles I |
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| History of the Sciences |
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Douglas Lane Patey
Sophia Smith Professor of English, Member of Smith's Program in
the history of science and technology
The Emergence of the Modern Division between the Arts and the Sciences;
The Secret Life of Isaac Newton, Alchemist |
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| Italian Language and Literature |
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Giovanna Bellesia
Professor of italian language & literature
Italian Women Writers; Immigrant Women Writers in Italy Today;
Translation Theory and Practice |
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| Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature |
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Justin Cammy
assistant professor of jewish studies, comparative literature,
middle east studies; director, program in jewish studies
Israel at 60: Zionism Then and Now; The New Anti-Semitism; Report from
the Cultural Frontier: Yiddish in America |
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| Landscape Studies |
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Andrew J. Guswa
associate professor of engineering
Bridges: The Art of Structural Design; Forest in the Clouds: The Water of
Monteverde, Costa Rica; Quenching our Thirst: Sustainable Water Resources
for a Changing World; Can Hamlet Help Engineers? The Liberal Arts and
Engineering |
Ann Leone '71
professor of french studies and landscape studies
Reading Literary Gardens; Every Fourth Household: Vernacular Gardens
in Northampton; From Jane Austen to Engineering: Landscape Studies
at Smith |
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| Mathematics |
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Pau Atela
professor of mathematics & statistics
Art and Mathematics: The case for MathStudio, An Ongoing Creative Studio
Space Focusing On Process and Dialog About Art and Mathematic |
David Warren Cohen
professor of mathematics & statistics
Teaching Mathematics as a Language; Current Reforms in Math Education
at the College Level; Mathematics as the Language of Nature |
Katherine Taylor Halvorsen
professor of mathematics & statistics
Consequences of the No Child Left Behind Act: Nationwide Standards
for the Kindergarten to Twelfth-Grade Mathematics Curriculum |
Nicholas Jon Horton
associate professor of mathematics and statistics
What Your Physician Should Know About Statistics (But Perhaps Doesn’t);
Maternal Influenza and Schizophrenia: Teasing Out Interacting Causes;
Quantitative Literacy: What Every Smith Alumna Should Know |
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Judith Gordon
assistant professor of music
Informal performance and lively conversation; solo piano and/or duo
programs with members of the Smith Chamber Ensemble; wide range
of repertoire available (grand piano needed) |
Jonathan Hirsh
Senior Lecturer, Director of Orchestral and Choral Activities
All groups available to perform (certain conditions apply)
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Monica Jakuc
Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor Emerita of Music
Women Composers Then and Now; Lecture recital of solo piano music
(grand piano needed) |
Joel Pitchon
associate professor of music
Robert and Clara Schumann: Music, Romance, and Marriage: A Revealing
Look at Their Letters; performances of piano (certain conditions apply); string
trios: performances and discussion of various repertoire featuring the works of
Beethoven and women composers; The “Kreutzer” Sonata for Violin and Piano
by Ludwig van Beethoven: Includes a lecture and a performance of the piece
(a piano is required); The third and last Sonata for Violin and Piano by Robert
Schumann |
William Petrie Wittig
professor emeritus of music
American Music and Art (20th Century); What’s New (and Not!) about Pop Music |
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| Philosophy |
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Jay L. Garfield
doris silbert professor of philosophy
Buddhist Philosophy, Cross-Cultural Interpretation: Smith’s Exchange Program
with the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies; The Role of Pretense in
Children’s Cognitive Development |
Albert Mosley
professor of philosophy
African Philosophy; African American Philosophy; Animal Rights; Philosophy
of Technology |
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| Physics |
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Piotr Decowski
professor of physics
The Fascinating and Weird Quantum World |
Nalini Easwar
professor of physics
Forces in Sand: Your Visit to the Beach Will Never Be the Same |
Gary Felder
assistant professor of physics
Einstein’s Legacy: A New Vision of Space and Time; The Big Bang and
the Expanding Universe; Beyond the Big Bang: What We Know About the
Early Universe; If Only I Had a Brane: Life in More Than Three Dimensions |
Malgorzata Z. Pfabé
sophia smith professor of physics
Nuclear Physics: Its History, Major Players, and Nuclear Power |
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| Psychology |
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Peter A. de Villiers
sophia and austin smith professor of psychology
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Myths and Mysteries (And a Few Answers
From Recent Research)
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Philip K. Peake
professor of psychology
Longitudinal Consequences of Preschool Self-Control, 30-Year Study |
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Joel S. Kaminsky
professor of religion, co-director of jewish studies
Humor in the Bible; Narrative Art in the Bible; Divine Favoritism in the
Bible; The Rabbinic View of Immortality; Early Jewish Biblical
Interpretation; Jewish/Christian Dialogue; The Treatment of the Other
in the Bible and Early Rabbinic Literature; Sibling Rivalry in the Bible |
Suleiman Ali Mourad
associate professor of religion
Islamic and Middle East History, Religion, and Culture: Muhammad,
the Qur’an; Formation and Development of Islamic Identities: Jesus
in the Qur’an and Islamic Thought; Symbolism of Jerusalem in Islam;
Muslim Reactions to the Crusade; Islam and Modernity |
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| Sociology |
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Rick Fantasia
director of the kahn liberal arts institute, Barbara Richmond
1940 Professor in the Social Sciences
Alchemy for the Intellect: The Transformative Powers of the Kahn Institute;
War of the Worlds: Fast Food Meets Haute Cuisine in France; The Moral Basis
of a Predatory Society or Social Inequality for Fun and Profit: New Forms of
Exploitation for a New Century |
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| Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies |
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Ginetta E.B. Candelario
associate professor of sociology and latin american studies
Not Just Pin Curls and Perms: The American Beauty Shop and Women’s
Community |
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| Spanish and Portuguese |
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Maria Estela Harretche
professor of spanish and portuguese
Spanish Poetry in Exile: Power of the Memory; Magic Realism: From Page
to Stage; Federico Garcia Lorca, Playwright: Hidden and Revealed
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Reyes Lázaro
associate professor of spanish and portuguese
The "Caricatsculpture" of Captain Dreyfus in Paris |
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Andrea Hairston '74
l.wolff kahn 1931 professor of theatre and professor of
Afro-American Studies
Minstrel Shows and Performing the Other; MINDSCAPE: Speculative Fiction,
Prophetic Artists, and Rehearsing the Future; Reinventing the Classics:
Shakespeare in the 19th Century |
Ellen W. Kaplan
professor of theatre
Under the Gun: Theater in Israel During and After the Second Intifada;
Narrative and Dialogue in Zones of Conflict |
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Martha A. Ackelsberg
william r. kenan jr. professor of government, Professor of the study
of women and gender
Who Votes? Who Cares?; Globalization Comes Home: Community Activism
at the U.S./Mexico Border; Making Democracy Work: Women’s Community
Activism and the Reconceptualization of Democratic Theory; Teaching about
the Politics of Wealth and Poverty
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Marilyn R. Schuster
Provost and Dean of the Faculty and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in
the humanities
Women Writers: Portraits and Self-Portraits (Writers such as Colette, Marguerite
Duras, Jane Rule, and Margaret Atwood). Rethinking Sexuality: Lesbian and
Gay Rights Movements before 1960 (De Martin and Phyllis Lyon The Daughters
of Bilitis and The Ladder – resistance in an age of repression) |
Susan R. Van Dyne
chair, program for the study of women and gender
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; Contemporary American Women Poets;
Telling Stories, Reading Lives; Women’s Studies and Citizenship in a Global
World; Memoirs of Difference: Claiming the Right to Write |
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Martin Antonetti
curator of rare books
Collecting Rare Books; New Acquisitions to the Mortimer Rare Book Room;
Book Arts at Smith; History of Printing, Bookbinding, and Papermaking; Using
Rare Books in the Curriculum at Smith |
Rick Fantasia
Director of the Kahn Liberal arts institute, professor of sociology
Alchemy for the Intellect: The Transformative Powers of the Kahn Institute;
War of the Worlds: Fast Food Meets Haute Cuisine in France; The Moral
Basis of a Predatory Society or Social Inequality for Fun and Profit (New
Forms of Exploitation for a New Century) |
Mary F. Hall
professor and licensed independent clinical social worker
The Legacy of Slavery; Ending Racism: The Work Ahead; Substance
Abuse in Women |
Carolyn Jacobs
dean of the school for social work; elizabeth marting treuhaft
professor
Spirituality: Transformative Moments in Life Stories; Finding Hope: The Role
of Spirituality in Responding to Trauma |
Thomas S. Litwin
director of the clark science center
1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced; Science in the Liberal Arts:
Curriculum and Construction for the 21st Century; Women in Science: Much
Accomplished, Much to Do |
Christopher B. Loring
director of libraries
With the Internet, Why Libraries? From Books to Bytes; Libraries, any topic |
Michael Marcotrigiano
director of the botanic garden; professor of biological sciences
Botanic Garden of Smith College: Past, Present, and Future; Shaping Plants
That Shape the Landscape; Perceiving a Colored Landscape |
Iris Marchaj
Director of Smith Executive Education for women
Women's Leadership Programs; Corporate Women's Leadership Initiatives;
Smith's Involvement in Executive Leadership Development |
Alan L. Marvelli
professor and director of the smith college-clarke school for the
deaf graduate teacher education program
The Impact of Cochlear Implants on the Lives of Profoundly Deaf Children
and Their Families |
Tracey A. Putnam
chief gardener
Woody Plant Evaluation for the Home Landscape; Too Much of a Good
Thing is Wonderful: Growing Peonies, Roses, and Clematis |
Sherrill Redmon
director of the sophia smith collection, coordinator of special
collections
Creating Women’s History, a video about the origins and mission of the
Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History Manuscripts and Archives;
Voices of Feminism, oral history
project |
Thomas A. Riddell
associate professor of economics; dean of the first-year class;
associate dean of the college
A Year Away From Smith: In Search of the Perfect Image (photographs
from a year on sabbatical in the U.K. and elsewhere) |
Peter Isaac Rose
sophia smith professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology,
senior fellow, kahn institute
Smith Clones in the Netherlands: The College as a Model for Reforming
Higher Education in Europe; Making a Difference: William Allan Neilson
and the Rescue of Refugee Intellectuals; With Few Reservations: Readings
from Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space; Is
Anti-Immigration the New Racism? Notes from the U.S. and Europe |
Christine M. Shelton
Professor of Exercise & Sport Studies; co-chair project on women &
social change
Women's Education Worldwide: Why Educate Women? |
Audrey Smith
Dean of Enrollment
Admissions and/or financial aid; college selection or future demographics
of the collegegoing population; overview of the current Smith student population |
Nanci A. Young
college archivist
History of the College; Women of Color at Smith; Photography on Campus |
Madelaine Zadik
manager of education and outreach, botanic garden
Botanic Garden of Smith College: Past, Present, and Future; Virginia Woolf:
A Botanical Perspective |
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