Mark Smith
Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, Mark Smith is an historian of race, slavery, and the American South and one of the acknowledged pioneers in the new field of sensory history. Author or editor of a dozen books, his work has won the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American historians, a Choice Book Award, and has been featured in the New York Times, the London Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Science. He has published dozens of articles, including essays in the Journal of American History, the American Historical Review, Past and Present, the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of Social History, and The Chronicle Review. He has lectured in Europe, throughout the United States, Australia, and China and serves as the General Editor of the Southern Classics Series, as co-editor of Liverpool University's Studies in International Slavery, and as General Editor of the University of Illinois Press' Studies in Sensory History. Professor Smith is the current President of The Historical Society and is currently at work on a sensory history of the American Civil War.
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