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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barbara Kellum’s field of expertise is the visual culture of the ancient Roman world. Her publications focus on everything from imperial building complexes to the shop signs and graffiti of Pompeii.

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.

Anna Botta’s academic training began at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and continued at the University of Turin, Italy (laurea in Lingue Straniere Moderne). She subsequently studied in France, ...

Lee Burns came to Smith in fall 1977 and teaches design and sculpture. His personal work is wide ranging, including carving of wood and stone, welding and bronze casting. After extensive work with ...

Garrett Bradley ’07—award-winning artist, Oscar-nominated filmmaker, and Smith College graduate—has been named a 2025 ...

Kathleen Priest Reimold ’63 continues to cherish quality time with her chosen Smith sisters ...

Born on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean, Robyn Quinnett began playing violin at eight years old. She has won several competitions including the National Mariam Hayes and Ruth Kern ...