BARBARA ELLEN SMITH

Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

Director, Women's Studies

Curriculum Vitae 

JOINED VPI& SU: 2005

CURRENT PROJECTS: .

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's

Antioch College

Master's

Brandeis University

Doctorate

Brandeis University


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Appalachian Studies
Race, Gender, and Labor in the South
Immigration

SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 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.

Southern Spaces Editorial Board, 2004-present.

Faces of Appalachia Advisory Board, collaborative NEH challenge grant initiative by Marshall University and the Appalachian Studies Association, 2003-present.

Journal of Appalachian Studies, Board of Editors, 1998-present.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Book

Barbara Ellen Smith. Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race and Class in the South, editor (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999).

Articles and Chapters

Barbara Ellen Smith. "Women’s Lives” (major entry), West Virginia Encyclopedia (Charleston, WV: West Virginia Historical Education Foundation, forthcoming).

Barbara Ellen Smith. "'Beyond the Mountains': The Paradox of Women's Place in Appalachian History," National Women's Studies Association Journal 11(3): 1-17, 1999 (special issue on “Appalachia and the South: Place, Gender, Pedagogy”).

Barbara Ellen Smith. "Place and the Past in the Global South,” American Literature, forthcoming in special issue on “Global Contexts, Local Literature: The New Southern Studies."

Barbara Ellen Smith. "Across Races and Nations: Social Justice Organizing in the Transnational South,” in Heather A. Smith and Owen Furuseth, eds., The New South: Latinos and the Transformation of Place (London: Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming).

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.

Barbara Ellen Smith. "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).

Barbara Ellen Smith. "De-gradations of Whiteness:  Appalachia and the Complexities of Race,” Journal of Appalachian Studies 10(1&2): 38-57, 2004.

Barbara Ellen Smith. "Black Lung Disease and the Black Lung Movement” (major entry), “Black Lung Associations,” “Buff, Dr. I.E.,” and “Rasmussen, Dr. Donald L.,” in Encyclopedia of Appalachia (Knoxville:  University of Tennessee Press, forthcoming).

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.

Barbara Ellen Smith. "The Social Relations of Southern Women," in Barbara Ellen Smith, ed., Neither Separate nor Equal: Women, Race and Class in the South (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999), pp. 13-33.

Barbara Ellen Smith. "Legends of the Fall: Contesting Economic History," in William Leonard, ed., Christianity in Appalachia: Profiles in Regional Pluralism (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), pp. 1-17.

Barbara Ellen Smith. "Walk-Ons in the Third Act: The Role of Women in Appalachian Historiography," Journal of Appalachian Studies 4 (1): 1-23, 1998.

Barbara Ellen Smith. "The Postmodern South: Racial Transformations and the Global Economy," in Carole Hill and Patricia Beaver, eds., Cultural Diversity in the U.S. South: Anthropological Contributions to a Region in Transition (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998), pp. 164-178.

Barbara Ellen Smith. "Which 'We' Are We?: The Politics of Identity in Women's Narratives," in Carol R. Ronai, Joe Feagin, and Barbara Zsembik, eds., Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 209-222.

Barbara Ellen Smith. "Crossing the Great Divides: Race, Class and Gender in Southern Women's Organizing, 1979-1991," Gender & Society (9)6: 680-696, 1995.

GRANTS

"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.


Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
256 Lane (0227)
Blacksburg, VA 24061
phone: (540) 231-7322
fax: (540) 231-7013