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 ...

Four distinguished leaders in the arts, academia, health and wellness, social justice, and innovation will be awarded honorary degrees at Smith’s 147th Commencement on Sunday, May 18. In a tradition ...

A group exhibition featuring students in enrolled in ARS 162, ARS 163, and ARS 172. On view through February 26, 2025. Free and open to public.

Frazer Ward teaches courses on the history and theory of modern and contemporary art and architecture. He is the author of No Innocent Bystanders: Performance Art and Audience (2012), and his work ...

Carol Zaleski earned her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard University. She has been teaching philosophy of religion, world religions and ...

Jessica Moyer grew up in Old Town, Maine. She studied classics at Kenyon College, taught English at Qinghai Normal University in northwestern China, and got her master's and doctorate in Chinese ...

Katherine M. Kinnaird is a computational researcher working at the intersection of machine learning, mathematics and cultural analytics. The central driving force behind her work is the building and ...

Dana Leibsohn’s current research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern ...

While at Smith, Donna Robinson Divine taught a variety of courses on Middle East politics. Fluent in Hebrew, Arabic and Turkish, she has held visiting appointments at Yale, Harvard and the Hebrew ...

Matt Donovan is the author of two collections of poetry—Vellum (Mariner, 2007) and Rapture & the Big Bam (Tupelo Press , 2017)—as well as the nonfiction collection of lyric essays A Cloud of Unusual ...

Jessica Nicoll is director and Louise Ines Doyle ’34 chief curator of the Smith College Museum of Art. She also serves as the director of Smith’s Museums Concentration, established in 2009, advising ...

Michael Thurston is the Helen Means Professor of English Language and Literature. Since his arrival at Smith in 2000, he has taught courses on 20th-century poetry in English, modernism, American ...