Charles H. Smith (born September 30, 1950) is Professor Emeritus at

Western Kentucky University Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It was founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier. It operates regional campuses in Glasgow, Elizabethtow ...

(WKU). He is best known for his work as a historian/philosopher and bibliographer of science, especially for his expertise on the career of

Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural se ...

. Smith was born in

Winsted, Connecticut Winsted is a census-designated place and an incorporated city in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the town of Winchester. The population of Winsted was 7,712 at the 2010 census, out of 11,242 in the entire town of Win ...

, and grew up in the nearby town of New Hartford. Since his undergraduate college years he has lived in Georgia, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Australia, Pennsylvania, and, from 1995, Bowling Green, Kentucky. He created and maintains the website ''The Alfred Russel Wallace Page'' hosted by WKU and devoted to Wallace scholarship, which includes a comprehensive bibliography of Wallace's publications and interviews, texts of Wallace's works, and writings on Wallace by Smith and others. Smith has also produced a number of conventional writings on Wallace including the anthology ''Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings'' published in 1991, a three-volume collection ''Alfred Russel Wallace: Writings on Evolution, 1843–1912'' published in 2004, an edited collection of writings ''Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace'' published in 2008, ''Alfred Russel Wallace's 1886–1887 Travel Diary: The North American Lecture Tour'' published in 2013, ''Enquête sur un Aventurier de l'Esprit: Le Véritable Alfred Russel Wallace'' (translated by Antoine Guillemain) published in 2013, ''Dear Sir: Sixty-Nine Years of Alfred Russel Wallace Letters to the Editor'' published in 2014, ''An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion'' published in 2019, and about seventy journal articles. Smith was originally trained as a

biogeographer Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, i ...

and has produced written work in that and cognate fields, including the bibliographic compilation ''Biodiversity Studies: A Bibliographic Review'' published in 2000, and journal-based philosophical, historical and empirical studies; he additionally hosts several related websites. He has also created and maintains three well known sites on music education hosted by WKU: ''The 111 Greatest Acts of the Anglo-American Folk Music Tradition'', ''The Classical Music Navigator'', and ''

Malvina Reynolds Malvina Reynolds (August 23, 1900 – March 17, 1978) was an American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist, best known for her songwriting, particularly the songs "Little Boxes", "What Have They Done to the Rain" and "Morningtown ...

: Song Lyrics and Poems''. In April 2013 Smith was a recipient of the national President's Call to Service Award, given to individuals who over their lifetime have volunteered at least 4000 hours of their time to public service, for his "website development for global awareness and education." In 2020 he issued a novel, ''Many Miles Away''. Smith received a B.A. (1972) in Geology,

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Epis ...

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; M.A. (1980), in Geography,

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...

; Ph.D. (1984), in Geography (emphasis: Biogeography; minor: History & Philosophy of Science),

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

; M.L.S. (1995),

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References

External links

The Alfred Russel Wallace Page

* ttp://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/music The Classical Music Navigator
Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems

Living people Wesleyan University alumni American historians of science Biogeographers 1950 births Western Kentucky University faculty 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers {{US-sci-historian-stub