Lectures by new Chaired Professors, sponsored by the President of Smith College. These lectures are free and open to the public.

David DeSwert joined Smith in 2007 and serves as a member of the president’s team. He provides strategic oversight of essential operations and services that enable the college’s mission, including ...

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 ...

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

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

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures offers multiple pathways for students to develop their knowledge of the vibrant cultures of China, Japan, and Korea. While developing linguistic and ...

Gretchen Groggel Ralston is the chief legal officer for the college and oversees the provision of legal services and development of legal strategy for the institution. She joined Smith in November ...

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

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero is a historically oriented anthropologist with almost a quarter-century of research experience in the Yucatan Peninsula. His research focuses on the complex relationship ...

Suleiman A. Mourad is a historian of Islamic and Middle Eastern cultures whose work focuses primarily on Muslims as makers and interpreters of their own religious, historical and legal traditions. His ...

In addition to being a professor of sociology, Ginetta Candelario is a member of the Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program (LALS), which she has directed several times, most recently from 2011 ...

The new microscope, which replaces an outdated 2001 model, provides images at the nanoscale: billionths of a meter. In addition, it can produce images with minimal preparation of samples. The ...