Professor Smith teaches the introductory undergraduate survey to US history (to 1865), undergraduate courses on the Old South and the Historians' Craft, and graduate courses on the Comparative History of Time and the U.S. nineteenth-century. He is author of Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (co-winner of the Organization of American Historians' 1997 Avery O. Craven Award and South Carolina Historical Society's Book of the Year); Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South, published by Cambridge University Press in 1998; and Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). His edited books include The Old South (Blackwell, 2000), Hearing History: A Reader (University of Georgia Press, 2004). He has published articles in the American Historical Review, Past and Present, the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of Social History, The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education),and the Journal of the Historical Society. His forthcoming books include How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the American South and Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt. He also serves as a member of Editorial Board of the Journal of Southern History.

Current Activities:

In addition to directing several Ph.D dissertations, I'm knee-deep in the "field" of sensory history-a vibrant area of historical inquiry dedicated to examining the roles played by olfaction, hearing, touch, and taste (as well as vision) in shaping the past. My concern is to help restore the full sensory texture of history and examine what the senses in addition to seeing might be able to tell us about historical experience and causation.

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