Mark M. Smith is an American historian and the Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the
University of South Carolina. Smith holds a B.A.
University of Southampton
, mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour
, type = Public research university
, established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...
(1988) & M.A. University of South Carolina (1991) and a Ph.D. University of South Carolina (1995). Smith is a scholar of
sensory history, which he described to an interviewer as stressing “the role of the senses—including sight and vision—in shaping people's experiences in the past and shows how they understood their worlds and why.”
[Tully, Susannah "A Sense of History", in: ''Chronicle of Higher Education'', February 22, 200]
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Books
* 1997: ''Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South'' (co-winner of the Organization of American Historians
The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad inc ...
' 1998 Avery O. Craven Award
Avery may refer to:
Business
* Avery Company, a former tractor manufacturer and later produced trucks and automobiles
* Avery Weigh-Tronix, a British manufacturer of industrial weighing systems
* Avery Berkel, a British manufacturer of retail ...
and South Carolina Historical Society
The South Carolina Historical Society is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1855 to preserve South Carolina's rich historical legacy. The SCHS is the state's oldest and largest private repository of books, letters, journals, maps, dr ...
's Book of the Year)
* 1998: ''Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South''. Cambridge University Press
* 2000: ''The Old South'', (as editor). Oxford: Blackwell
* 2001: ''Listening to Nineteenth-Century America''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
* 2004: ''Hearing History: a reader'', (as editor). Athens: University of Georgia Press
* 2006: ''How Race is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
References
Historians of the United States
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Alumni of the University of Southampton
University of South Carolina alumni
University of South Carolina faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male non-fiction writers
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