Barbara Ellen Smith
Professor
Director of Women's & Gender Studies
Joined Virginia Tech: 2005
| Bachelor's |
Brandeis University |
| Master's | |
| Doctorate |
Selected Professional Activities:
Southern Spaces Editorial Board, 2004- .
Faces of Appalachia Advisory Board, collaborative NEH challenge grant initiative by Marshall University and the Appalachian Studies Association, 2003-2007.
Selected Grants and Awards:
Institute for Culture, Society and the Environment, Virginia Tech, “Gender, Bodies and Technology,” $6,000, 2008.
Institute for Culture, Society and the Environment, Virginia Tech, Summer Scholars award for “Between Making a Living and Making a Place: Flexible Labor, Social Reproduction and Latino Migration to the U.S. South,” $9,295, 2007.
Meritorious Faculty Award, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Memphis, 2004.
Distinguished Research Award in the Social Sciences, The University of Memphis Alumni Association, 2003.
”Across Races and Nations: Building New Communities in the South” (director of community-based research and education project on recent Latino immigration to the U.S. South, carried out in collaboration with Highlander Center and Southern Regional Council), Ford, Rockefeller and Charles Stewart Mott Foundations, $525,000, 1999-2003.
”The Making of Race and Gender: Memphis, the Delta and the Mid-South,” co-authored with Kenneth W. Goings, Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship Program, $250,000, 1998-2002.
Professional Development Assignment (competitively awarded sabbatical), The University of Memphis, 2001-2002.
Selected Publications:
”Market Rivals or Class Allies?: Relations between African American and Latino Immigrant Workers in Memphis,” in Jon Shefner and Fran Ansley, eds., Global Connections and Local Receptions: New Latino Immigration to the Southeastern U.S. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, forthcoming).
”Latino Immigrants and the Challenge of Community in Appalachia,” Appalachian Journal, forthcoming.
_____ and Jamie Winders, “’We’re Here to Stay: Economic Restructuring, Latino Migration, and Place-Making in the U.S. South,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 33: 60-72, 2008.
”Place and the Past in the Global South,” American Literature, special issue on “Global Contexts, Local Literature: The New Southern Studies,” 78(4): 693-695, 2006.
”Across Races and Nations: Social Justice Organizing in the Transnational South,” in Heather A. Smith and Owen Furuseth, eds., Latinos in the New South: Transformations of Place (London: Ashgate Publishing, 2006), pp. 235-256.
Dare Cook et al., “’You Dig Where You Stand:’ An Interview with Barbara Ellen Smith,” Appalachian Journal 33(2): 188-208, 2006.
David H. Ciscel and Barbara Ellen Smith, “The Impact of Supply Chain Management on Labor Standards: The Transition to Incessant Work,” Journal of Economic Issues 39(2): 429-437, 2005.
Barbara Ellen Smith, Marcela Mendoza and David H. Ciscel, “The World on Time:’ Flexible Labor, New Immigrants and Global Logistics,” in James L. Peacock, Harry Watson and Carrie Matthews, eds., The American South in a Global World (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005), pp. 23-38.
”The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting,” Appalachian Journal 32(2): 176-178, 2005 (commentary on the plenary address at the 2004 Appalachian Studies Association conference by Eduardo Duran).
”De-gradations of Whiteness: Appalachia and the Complexities of Race,” Journal of Appalachian Studies 10(1&2): 38-57, 2004.
”David H. Ciscel, Barbara Ellen Smith and Marcela Mendoza, “Ghosts in the Global Machine: New Immigrants and the Redefinition of Work,” Journal of Economic Issues 37(2): 333-341, 2003.
”The Place of Appalachia,” Journal of Appalachian Studies 8(1): 78-85, 2002 (special symposium on globalization).
Marcela Mendoza, David H. Ciscel and Barbara Ellen Smith, “El Impacto de los
Inmigrantes Latinos en la Economia de Memphis, Tennessee,” Revista de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos 46: 659-675, 2000.