Dr. Angela Smith, Assistant Professor
- Dr. Smith at Stonehenge in 2007.
Angela Smith grew up on the banks of Old Hickory Lake in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville, during the 1960s and ‘70s. Her family’s home was surrounded on three sides by cow pastures, which today have been subdivided and crisscrossed with asphalt. That rural environment and connection to the past gave her the foundation for a career as a professor of history at North Dakota State University.
After she graduated from Belmont University in 1984 with a degree in English and communications, she spent 20 years working on the cutting edge of the sweeping graphic design technology shift as a print and web designer. Several years ago, she decided to weave her new media and graphic design experience with her passion for historical understanding, using storytelling and documentary filmmaking as primary tools. To learn more about those areas, she is enrolled in the certificate program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She has a Master’s Degree in History and a Ph.D. in Public History from Middle Tennessee State University. To learn more about her academic and public history work, click here. For more information about her dissertation, a historical biography of John Beecher, click here.
Email: angela.smith.1@ndsu.edu
Phone: 701-231-8827
