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Faith Lois Smith is an Associate Professor at Brandeis University, jointly appointed in the Department of African and African American Studies, Department of English, and affiliated with Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and CAST Programs. She holds the Marta F. Kauffman Chair in African and African American Studies and serves as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies.
Education:
- Ph.D., Duke University
- M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
- B.A., University of the West Indies
Her research focuses on the intellectual, cultural, and literary histories of the Caribbean and the African Diaspora from the late nineteenth century to the present. She explores intersections of gender, sexuality, sovereignty, and modernity, particularly in transnational and postcolonial contexts. Her work engages deeply with material culture, educational institutions, and diasporic identity formation.
The available articles reflect her interdisciplinary engagement with cultural and intellectual history, examining themes such as artificial silk and intimacy in the interwar Caribbean and the influence of American educational models on Caribbean self-fashioning. These works highlight her interest in materiality, gender, and transnational networks.
Scientific Awards and Honors:
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (1997–1998)
- Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library (1998)
- Fellow, National Humanities Center (2002–2003)
- Dean's Office grant for developing AAAS interdisciplinary course (2004)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2005)
- Norman Award (2013)
- Senior Faculty Research Leave (2013–2014)
- Mandel Humanities Center Faculty Grant (2019)
- Norman Award for Spanish tuition (2019)
- Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Scholarship (2021)
Faith Smith has secured multiple internal and external grants supporting her research and course development, particularly in interdisciplinary humanities. She advises on curriculum innovation and leads major departmental initiatives. Her edited collection Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean (2011) and forthcoming book Strolling Through the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century underscore her sustained scholarly impact.
She is affiliated with the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, where her office is located, and contributes to interdisciplinary research clusters focused on global humanities and diasporic studies.
