Isabel Strauss is an architectural designer and independent curator. Her research commingles architectural history and African American cultural history, specifically on the south side of Chicago.

Who are the Smithies in the class of 2029? Check out some of the data on our newest group of students. All data is for students entering in the fall of 2025 as of August 1, 2025.

Fortunately, the college’s Lazarus Center for Career Development has the expertise and resources to help students feel more confident about taking what Dean of Career Development Faith McClellan calls ...

More About President Willie-LeBreton An accomplished administrator, scholar, and sociologist who studies social inequality and race and ethnicity, Willie-LeBreton is known for her commitment to the ...

Learn how Smith is being covered in the press and online through links to the latest media mentions about students, faculty, staff, and alums. From opinion pieces, to profiles, to discussions of ...

Michael Figueroa (he/him) is a performer, director of Ruckus Dance, and dance educator. His dances navigate rule-breaking, body memory, personal anecdotes, audience participation, and improvised ...

Tom Roberts researches Russian literature, cinema and intellectual history, specializing in the theory and practice of 19th-century literary realism. He is currently completing his first book, which ...

Albert Young-Sun Kim (김영선) is an assistant professor of statistical & data sciences. He is a co-author of the fivethirtyeight R package and ModernDive, an online textbook for introductory data science ...

Before coming to Smith in 2018, Allie Strom was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the chemistry department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She conducted her doctoral research at the ...

Katie Duarte is a postdoctoral fellow in Latinx studies. Currently, her book project considers the gendered narratives and Latinx and Black identity-making through curly hair and the natural hair ...

John Weinert received his bachelor's degree from Bard College and went on to complete his master's degree in Arabic language and literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked as ...

Lily Gurton-Wachter received her bachelor’s in literature from Bard College and her doctorate in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation was awarded the ...