Four distinguished leaders in the arts, academia, health and wellness, social justice, and innovation will be awarded honorary degrees at Smith’s 147th Commencement on Sunday, May 18. In a tradition ...

A chic hat is a surefire way to look cool in cold weather. At her MadisonTheMaker shop on Etsy, Madison Lalemand ’06 sells a selection of luxury handmade beanies (all $60) knitted with alpaca yarn and ...

Sara Newland is a scholar of local politics in China and Taiwan, and seeks to understand the behavior of local officials as domestic public servants and as actors in international relations. Her ...

In addition to holding the Janet Wright Ketcham 1953 Chair in Middle East Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, Steven Heydemann is a nonresident senior fellow in the ...

Mehammed Amadeus Mack earned his doctorate in French and comparative literature from Columbia University, where he completed a dissertation titled "Immigration and Sexual Citizenship: Gender, ...

Hans Rudolf Vaget is professor emeritus of German studies and comparative literature at Smith, where he taught from 1967 to 2004. He received his academic training at the universities of Munich and ...

Yael Granot received her doctorate in social psychology from New York University and her bachelor’s from Vassar College. Her research focus is psychology and law. She uses eye tracking and other ...

Julianna Tymoczko’s research is between algebraic geometry and algebraic combinatorics, including studies of geometric representations of the symmetric group, modern Schubert calculus, and equivariant ...

Anna Kapambwe Mwaba is an assistant professor of Government. Her research focuses on the role of African international and regional organizations in election observation and democracy promotion in ...

Dana Leibsohn’s current research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern ...

Michael Thurston is the Helen Means Professor of English Language and Literature. Since his arrival at Smith in 2000, he has taught courses on 20th-century poetry in English, modernism, American ...

Katherine M. Kinnaird is a computational researcher working at the intersection of machine learning, mathematics and cultural analytics. The central driving force behind her work is the building and ...