The study identifies an important paradox about grading at Smith: Students still want to be graded on their performance and rewarded for individual merit. But they also want a classroom feedback ...

That blend of determination and flexibility was crucial in the development of NurtureHer, a nonprofit Boakye founded to ...

Erin Pineda teaches courses in the history of political thought, democratic theory, race and politics, social movements and American political thought. Her research interests include the politics of ...

Jay L. Garfield teaches in the philosophy department and directs Tibetan studies in India program. He is also visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, professor of ...

Martha Ackelsberg joined the Smith faculty in 1972, was appointed Five College 40th Anniversary Professor in 2006, and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in 2007. She retired at the end of 2014. At Smith, ...

Michael Barresi’s research interests are focused on how glial cells help wire the nervous system in the embryonic zebrafish brain. His lab discovered that astroglial cells provide a substrate for ...

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 ...

Sara Pruss’ career in geology began as an undergraduate at the University of Rochester. Her interest in field­-based research led her to the laboratory of David Bottjer at the University of Southern ...

Sarah Mazza is a hard-rock geologist who began her career at the University of North Carolina. Torn between furthering her education in topics of petrology or structural geology, she ended up at ...

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, ...

Margaret Sarkissian teaches courses in ethnomusicology and anthropology. Her field research has focused primarily on the Malaysian-Portuguese and Straits Chinese communities of Melaka (Malacca), ...

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 ...