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Dr. Smith received her Ph.D in Religious and Theological Studies in 1990 from Boston University. Her areas of specialization include Native American Religions; Myth Studies; Feminist Studies in Religion and Neo-Paganism. Dr. Smith is the author of The Island of the Anishnaabeg: Thunderers and Water Monsters in the Ojibwe Life-World, (Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1995), as well as more than a dozen articles and book chapters. Her latest chapter, "Ojibwe Mythology" appears in American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia, Suzanne Crawford and Dennis Kelly, eds. (ABC-CLIO, 2005).
Dr. Smith is currently working on a book, Medicine and Magic: Conversations with an Ojibwa Medicine Woman and a Cornish Village Witch, in cooperation with Marilyn Johnson and Cassandra Latham. Dr. Smith has served as an artist in residence at the Kalani Retreat Center, Kalani, Hawaii, and a visiting research scholar at the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, North York, Ontario.
She has taught in the Oxford Program and directed the IUP Institute for Experiential Studies in the Humanities in Boscastle, Cornwall. Courses taught at IUP include Native North American Religions; Women and Religion; Neo-Paganism: Day Wicca; Creation Myths; Religion and Sexual Diversity; and Dreams and Nightmares.
Fall 2009
RLST 110-005 World Religions, TR 12:30-1:45 p.m.
RLST 110-006 World Religions, TR 3:30-4:45 p.m.
LBST 499-006 Creation Myths, W 5:05-7:45 p.m.
Fall 2009 Office Hours
TR 2:15-3:15 p.m.
W 1:00-4:00 p.m.
or by appointment
