Biography
Mark Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History and Claude Henry Neuffer Chair of Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he is also Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Smith specializes in the history of the senses and is author of a Sensory History Manifesto and editor of Smell and History: A Reader.
Sample Works
- The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War (2014) Book
- A Sensory History Manifesto (2021) Book
- How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (2006) Book
- Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (1997) Book
- Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History (2007) Book
- Sensory History (2007) Book
- Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt (2005) Book
- Listening to Nineteenth-Century America (2001) Book
Roundtable Appearances
April 13, 2024 · ▶ Video
Discovering the What and the Wherefore: Scents and Sensibility
The roundtable examines olfaction as the first remote sense, exploring how smell creates "a series of pathways laid out on gradients" that orient organisms toward meaningful...
Clare Batty, James Bower, Andreas Keller, John McGann, Dmitry Rinberg, Mark Smith