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, ...

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 ...

Torleif Persson received his bachelor’s in Theoretical Philosophy from Lund University and his doctorate in Literatures in English from Rutgers University. He is an experienced writing instructor and ...

Did you ever have trouble deciding on a major? What, ultimately, helped you decide? When I originally came to Smith, I knew that I wanted to be a STEM major, but I had no idea where that would lead me ...

Hélène Visentin teaches courses on language and culture, Paris as a cultural capital, French intellectuals and social networking in early modern France. Her teaching approach fosters historical, ...

Naomi Miller teaches in the department of English as well as the Study of Women & Gender. Her teaching interests include Shakespeare, early modern women authors, lyric poetry of all periods and ...

Nnamdi Pole earned his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999 and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San ...

Pamela Petro is an author, artist and educator living in Northampton. She has written three place­-based creative nonfiction books as well as articles and essays for many publications, including The ...

As a microscopist and cell biologist, Judith Wopereis is interested in the use of microscopical techniques to visualize and characterize small biological structures. Her main focus is the study of ...

Amy Ellis Nutt is a journalist, author, and teacher. She received the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing in 2011 and is currently working on her fourth book. Amy was a Smith College Medal recipient in ...

President of the Smith College Society of Women Engineers chapter, Engineering Liaison, guitarist and founder of the Jazz Smiths combo. Describe your major. As an engineering major, you learn how to ...

Peris is focused on changing the world for women, particularly women of color. “I am a self that is always becoming,” says the Nairobi native, the first in her family to go to college, and the very ...