Ryan A. Smith

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Education

• PhD, History, University of Arkansas (expected May 2025)
• Graduate Certificate, African & African American Studies, University of Arkansas (2023)
• M.A., History, Arkansas State University (2017)
• B.A, History, University of Central Arkansas (2008)

Teaching

• AAS 100 - Introduction to African American Studies
• HST 121 - Survey of the History of the United States to 1877

Professional experience

Smith, Ryan Anthony. Review of Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till, by Elliott Gorn. Journal of Mississippi History 81, no. 3 and no. 4 (Fall/Winter 2019): 256-257.

Smith, Ryan Anthony. Encyclopedia of Arkansas, “Mary Dewees.” Little Rock, Arkansas. Encyclopedia of Arkansas..

Smith, Ryan Anthony. “Laura Conner and the Limits of Prison Reform in 1920s Arkansas,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 77, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 52-63.

Research and professional interests

• United States History
• African Diaspora
• Policing & Prisons
• Slavery, Abolition, & Emancipation
• Race, Democracy, & Citizenship

Awards and honors

• J. Hillman Yowell Award for outstanding graduate student instructor, Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, University of Arkansas, 2023.
• Research Fellow, Pryor Center for Arkansas Visual and Oral History, 2019.
• Diane D. Blair Fellowship in Arkansas History, Diane D. Blair Center for Southern Politics and Society, 2019.
• Violet B. Gingles Award for outstanding manuscript essay in Arkansas history, Arkansas Historical Association, 2017.