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Department of History and Philosophy
Billy G. Smith
Professor
(PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1981)
Early America; Class; Race; Slavery
Office: Wilson 2-166
Phone: 406-994-5207
E-Mail:
bgs@montana.edu
Fall 2008
Courses: Hist 155H
Office Hours: WF 10:15-11:30
Syllabus:Hist 155H
Research Areas:
Early America, race, class
Recent Publications:
Ship of Death: The Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World(National Geographic Books, forthcoming).
Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). With Simon Middleton.
Co-editor of “Class and Early America,” an issue of the William and Mary Quarterly, Spring 2006. With Simon Middleton.
Co-editor of “Deference in Early North America,” an issue of Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. With Simon Middleton.
Co-editor of “Class Analysis in Early America and the Atlantic World: Foundations and Future,” an issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas. With Simon Middleton.
Down and Out In Early America (University Park, Pa.: Penn State Press, 2004). Hardback and paperback.
Encyclopedia of American History: Colonization and Settlement, 1685-1763 (New York: Facts on File, 2003), Volume 2 of Gary B. Nash, series editor, Encyclopedia of American History.
“A Melancholy Scene of Devastation:” The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic (Philadelphia: Science History Publications, 1997). With J. Worth Estes.
Life in Early Philadelphia: Documents from the Revolutionary and Early National Periods (University Park, Pa.: Penn State Press, 1995). Hardback and paperback.
The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, An Indentured Servant (University Park, Pa.: Penn State Press, 1992). With Susan E. Klepp. Hardback & paperback. Revised second edition, July, 2005.
The “Lower Sort:” Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 1750 1800(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990). Paperback, 1993.
Blacks Who Stole Themselves: Advertisements for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728 1790 (Philadelphia: Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 1989). With Richard Wojtowicz.
Awards, Grants, Activities
Elected Member of the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Mass.), 2006
Recognition for Colonization and Settlement, 1685-1763: The Encyclopedia was selected “Outstanding Reference Source, 2004” by RUSA/ALA; “Editors’ Choice Reference Source, 2003” by BOOKLIST/RBB; “Best Reference Source, 2003” by Library Journal; “Outstanding Academic Title, 2003” by Choice.
L&S Research Enhancement award ($3000), 2004
James and Mary Ross Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2000
Grant from the Hewlett Foundation to “reinvent” the MSU CORE ($150,000) in 1998 2000, and renewal ($150,000) in 2000-02 (a member of a five-person committee)
Scholarship and Creativity Grant, MSU, 1999-2000, 2000-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-06
Exceptional Opportunities Grant, MSU, 1998-1999
Cox Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research at MSU, 1994
Research Grants from the American Philosophical Society, Fall, 1982 and Summer, 1993
Sabbatical from MSU, 1991-92, 2000-01
Wiley Award for Outstanding Research at MSU, 1991
American Antiquarian Society National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship, 1991-92
Mortar Board Professor of the Month for Outstanding Teaching at MSU, February, 1990
Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, 1982-83
Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1982 and 1988
Fellowship from the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Fall, 1982 and Fall, 1984
Grant from Montanans on a New Track for Science (a program funded in part by the National Science Foundation), 1982-83, 83-84, 84-85, 86-87
Research Creativity Grant, Montana State University, 1982-83, 84-85, 85-86, 87-88, 88-89, 89-90, 90-91, 92-93, 93-94, 95-96, 96-97
Grants from Montana Committee for the Humanities, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001
Courses Taught
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