Subject Areas: American Architecture, Modern Architecture,
Women's Studies
Office: 831 ZSR Library
FAC Phone: 336-758-5079
Home Page: http://www.wfu.edu/~smith

After receiving her PhD from Brown University, Smith taught at Boston University where she was the founding director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation. She has taught art and architectural history at Wake Forest since 1979 and helped to establish the college's Women's Studies Program. She coordinated the North Carolina Women's History Project for the NC Museum of History and curated the exhibition that opened the museum's new building in 1994. North Carolina Women, Making History, coauthored with Emily Herring Wilson, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1999. Winner of the 1998-1999 Mayflower Cup for Nonfiction, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Dr. Smith's newest book is entitled
Architecture and the American Ski Resort. It examines, through the lens of destination ski resorts in New England, the Rocky Mountains, and the Far West, the rise of recreational tourism and themed architecture from the 1930s to 1990. Another of Dr. Smith's current projects involves the architect Charles Barton Keen and is titled Main Line to Tobacco Road.