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
• 2006: How Race is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina 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