Mark M. Smith

Mark M. Smith is an American historian and the Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Smith holds a B.A. University of Southampton & M.A. University of South Carolina (1991) and a Ph.D. University of South Carolina (1995). Smith is a scholar of sensory history, which he described to an interviewer as stressing “the role of the senses—including sight and vision—in shaping people's experiences in the past and shows how they understood their worlds and why.”

Books 1997. Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (co-winner of the Organization of American Historians' 1998 Avery O. Craven Award and South Carolina Historical Society's Book of the Year) 1998. Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South. Cambridge University Press 2000. The Old South, (as editor). Oxford: Blackwell 2001. Listening to Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2004. Hearing History: a reader, (as editor). Athens: University of Georgia Press 2005. "Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt". Columbia: University of South Carolina Press 2006. How Race is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2007. "Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching, and Touching in History". Berkeley: University of California Press 2007. "Sensory History". Oxford: Berg 2015. "The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War". New York: Oxford University Press 2021. "A Sensory History Manifesto". University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press Also: 2020. Boddice, Rob, and Mark M. Smith. Emotion, Sense, Experience. Cambridge University Press; 2020.

Public Humanities

He is the host and creator of the podcast "Take on the South, produced by the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina.