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At a ceremony on campus in May, 14 retiring faculty members were honored for a combined 484 years of service to Smith.
Kirkpatrick has been named dean of libraries for Smith College. Most recently serving as the dean of university libraries at ...
The Smith eDigest is sent to all campus email accounts on Tuesday and Thursday each week during the academic year and on Tuesdays during the summer. Items for eDigest are limited to official Smith ...
The Smith community comes together for events throughout the year. From the first Rally Day in 1876, to Julia Child Day and the Sherrerd Teaching Prizes, begun in 2004, the college's annual events ...
Danez Smith is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead, a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award which circles their Black, queer, and HIV positive status. At once haunted, sensual, explosive and ...
Katy Schneider teaches drawing and painting at Smith College. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and of awards from the National Academy of Design and ...
Jamaal May, described by the Boston Review as a “poet as machinist”, writes exquisite paths between the melancholy and the sublime. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, May explores themes of ...
Rachael Chase is a professional designer of residential architecture in western Massachusetts. Her work is focused on clean, warm and modern whole-house renovations; creating new from the old while ...
John Slepian’s artwork has been shown nationally and internationally at venues including P.S.1/MoMA and Hunter College art galleries in New York; the Exploratorium in San Francisco; Axiom Gallery, ...
The Smith College Sophian called Lenelle Moïse ’04 “a slam-style poet, playwright, actor, author and queer feminist [who] fuses issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and politics.” Moïse, who ...
Bettina Judd’s work is imbued with the echoes of history and the weight of injustice. Her new book, Patient., explores the history of gynecology, memory, and trauma. Following her own hospitalization ...
Karen Poppy '98 was in the first class to participate in The Poetry Center at Smith College, and has fond memories of that. She came back to writing poetry and fiction last year, after an almost 20 ...