Isabel Strauss is an architectural designer and independent curator. Her research commingles architectural history and African American cultural history, specifically on the south side of Chicago.

Who are the Smithies in the class of 2029? Check out some of the data on our newest group of students. All data is for students entering in the fall of 2025 as of August 1, 2025.

Fortunately, the college’s Lazarus Center for Career Development has the expertise and resources to help students feel more confident about taking what Dean of Career Development Faith McClellan calls ...

Africana studies considers how racial blackness, and the concept of race itself, influences the development of the modern world. We investigate the social, historical, cultural and aesthetic works and ...

More About President Willie-LeBreton An accomplished administrator, scholar, and sociologist who studies social inequality and race and ethnicity, Willie-LeBreton is known for her commitment to the ...

Learn how Smith is being covered in the press and online through links to the latest media mentions about students, faculty, staff, and alums. From opinion pieces, to profiles, to discussions of ...

Michael Figueroa (he/him) is a performer, director of Ruckus Dance, and dance educator. His dances navigate rule-breaking, body memory, personal anecdotes, audience participation, and improvised ...

Tom Roberts researches Russian literature, cinema and intellectual history, specializing in the theory and practice of 19th-century literary realism. He is currently completing his first book, which ...

Albert Young-Sun Kim (김영선) is an assistant professor of statistical & data sciences. He is a co-author of the fivethirtyeight R package and ModernDive, an online textbook for introductory data science ...

Katie Duarte is a postdoctoral fellow in Latinx studies. Currently, her book project considers the gendered narratives and Latinx and Black identity-making through curly hair and the natural hair ...

Scott Edmands has been a laboratory instructor in chemistry and biochemistry at Smith since 2009. His research background in cancer research, molecular and cellular biology, as well as years of ...

Lily Gurton-Wachter received her bachelor’s in literature from Bard College and her doctorate in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation was awarded the ...