Dr. Kathleen E. R. Smith
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., History, Louisiana State University
M.A., Women's History, University of Maryland
Fields of Interest:
Women's History, 20th Century U.S. History, American Popular Culture, World War I, World War II, Vietnam War.
Kathleen E.R. Smith, Ph.D., is the Clyde Bostick Professor of Social Studies, 2005-2006 and Associate Professor of History in the School of Social Sciences, Northwestern State University of Louisiana. She is the author of “Whores, Ladies, and Calamity Jane: Gender Roles in HBO’s Deadwood,” in Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By, edited by David Lavery, London: I.B. Tauris, 2006; "God Bless America”: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War. Lexington, KY: University of Press of Kentucky, April 2003, and Lieutenant Colonel Emily U. Miller, a biography. Natchitoches, LA: Northwestern State University of Louisiana Press, 1984. ?She is the Editor of Zwolle, Louisiana: Our Story, Portrait of a Small Town, published by the Town of Zwolle, Louisiana and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2000. She also published a supplemental essay in America and Its Peoples: A Mosaic in the Making, by James Kirby Martin, et al, Fifth Edition, Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2004.
Dr. Smith is the recipient of a Special Humanities Award presented by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities in 2002. She has presented papers over 50 times at regional and national conferences of the Popular Culture Association, various historical associations, and is a frequent guest lecturer around the state of Louisiana, including the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, LA.
Smith holds the B.A. in American History from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD., the M.A. in Woman’s History, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, and the Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
