EDUCATION INFO:
1973 - B.A. History, Virginia Military Institute
1983 - M.A. Anthropology, University of Kentucky

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Archaeology

AREAS OF INTEREST:
Military sites archaeology, Revolutionary and Civil Wars, African American Military History.
THESIS TITLE:
“A Comparison of the Documentary Evidence of Material Culture and the Archaeological Record: Store Ledgers and Two Black Tenant Sites, Waverly Plantation, Mississippi.”


THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Kenneth Hirth

DISSERTATION RESEARCH/PROJECT:
My dissertation will focus on Francis Marion’s partisan campaign from August 1, 1780 to August 1, 1781. Three major areas of research will be pursued, mobility, political economy and archaeology. First, a new Marion history during this period will written to serve as a basis for the analyses. Marion’s mobility, the heart of partisan warfare, will be examined next using landscape analysis. Political economic analysis will focus on Marion’s logical needs and the relationship between Marion and loyalist and patriot plantations supplying those needs. Finally, an archaeological analysis of partisan warfare to include examination of battlefields and camps will be undertaken.

Ph.D. ADVISOR:
Dr. Kenneth Kelly

DISSERTATION WORKING TITLE:
“Anthropological Perspectives on Partisan Warfare: Francis Marion’s Partisan Campaign 1780-1781”

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Kenneth Kelly, Chair
Joanna Casey
Thomas Leatherman
Edward Carr
Larry Babits

PAPERS/POSTERS PRESENTED:
2007 “The Search for the Huck’s Defeat Battlefield.” Invited Speaker, Second Biennial Revolutionary War Symposium of the Southern Revolutionary War Institute, York, County, S.C.

2007 “The Settlement History of Fort Polk.” Invited Speaker, Heritage Day Workshop, Fort Polk, Louisiana, April.

2006 “The Road To Battle: Delineating Battlefields and Battlefield Features in South Carolina.” Presentation in “Battlefields of the Past, Battlegrounds of the Present” Session of the Annual Summer Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Committee on Historic and Archaeological Preservation in Transportation (ADC50) Williamsburg, Va., July 24.

2006 Opening Remarks On Battlefield Archaeology in South Carolina.” Annual Meeting of the South Carolina Archaeological Society, Feb 17.

2005 “Revolutionary War Archaeology,” Workshop, Restoring Our Revolutionary Heritage, sponsored by the Palmetto Conservation Foundation, Greenville, S.C. November, 5.

2005 (Smith and James B. Legg),“Observations on the State of Battlefield Archaeology,” Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, November 3-6, Columbia, SC.

2005 “ Fort Motte, A British Outpost of the American Revolution.” Annual Meeting of The Archaeological Society of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

2004 Legg, James B., and Steven D. Smith, “Understanding Camden: Salvaging Artifact Data From a Heavily Collected Battlefield.” Fields of Conflict III: Third International Battlefields Conference, Nashville, Tenn. April 20, in association with the 7 th National Conference on Battlefield Preservation, National Park Service, American Battlefield Protection Program.

And 41 others since 1979

PUBLICATIONS:
Anderson, David G, and Steven D. Smith
2003 Archaeology, History and Predictive Modeling: Research at Fort Polk, 1972-2002. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

2003 Made in the Timber: A Settlement History of the Fort Leonard Wood Region. ERDC/CERL, Champaign, Illinois.

1999 A Good Home for a Poor Man: Fort Polk and Vernon Parish, 1800-1940. Legacy Resource Management Program, Washington DC, and the National Park Service, Southeast Regional Office, Tallahassee, Florida.

1998 (Crass, David C., Steven D. Smith, Martha A. Zierden, and Richard D. Brooks, editors)
The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Plus 3 booklets, 7 monographs, 8 journal articles, 14 book chapters, and over 50 technical reports, reviews, and encyclopedia entries

AWARDS:
2007 Special Recognition for Efforts in Battlefield Archaeology. Archaeological Society of South Carolina, Annual Meeting, February 17.

2002 Garrison Commanders Coin of Excellence. Presented for Outstanding Performance in connection with the Native American Consultation Meetings May 6 through 9. Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

2002 National Park Service Partnership Awards, Historic Preservation Award, WASO
“The H.L. Hunley Recovery Project,” Presented to South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.

1999 National Daughters of the American Revolution Outstanding Slide Program Award, for "The Search For General Francis Marion's Snow's Island Camp."

1999 Commanding General's Certificate, U.S. Army Engineer Center, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and recognized by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (EO), Department of Defense, for research published as A Historic Context Statement For A World War II Era Black Officers' Club, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

1996 Commissioned Captain, South Carolina Unorganized Militia, by the Governor and the Adjutant General of the South Carolina National Guard, For work performed in the Folly Island Excavations and the Hunley Project.

1991 Notable State Document Award for Comprehensive Bibliography of South Carolina Archaeology (Principal Investigator), presented by the South Carolina State Library.

FELLOWSHIPS:
2005-07 South Carolina Battleground Trust Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina.

1979 Awarded, Archaeological Traineeship in Cultural Resource Management, University of Kentucky.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Register of Professional Archaeologists
Society for Historical Archaeology
Nominated to Sigma Xi

EMAIL:
sds@sc.edu