Mark M. Smith

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 (1988) & M.A. University of South Carolina (1991) and a Ph.D. University of South Carolina (1995).^[1]

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.”^[2]

Books

• 1997: Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (co-winner of the Organization of American Historians' 1998 Avery O. Craven Award and South Carolina Historical Society'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

References

1. ^ http://www.cas.sc.edu/HIST/facultyprofiles/smithmark.html Mark M. Smith's faculty profile
2. ^ Tully, Susannah "A Sense of History", in: Chronicle of Higher Education, February 22, 2008 [1]

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