Margaret Supplee Smith
Professor (1986-) and Chair (1980-88, 1997-2004),
Wake Forest Professor (2001), Harold W. Tribble Professor (2005)
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. She co-authored the award-winning North Carolina Women: Making History (UNC Press, 1999). Her recent research on the American Ski Resort: Architecture, Experience and Style will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2012.
Read Maria Henson's "Deacon Blog" about Peggy Smith's "Last" Lecture, "Architecture Matters" -
4/12/2011
Read about Peggy Smith First Year Seminar "Living the American Dream" which included working on Habitat for Humanity projects.
Thanks!