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Dr. Smith received a BA from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA in 1989, and an MA and PhD (2000) from Rutgers University. She has been a member of the YSU Department of Art faculty since 1998.
Dr. Smith has received many fellowships and honors including a Fulbright fellowship (1995), a Samuel H. Kress Foundation fellowship at the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome, Italy (1995-1998), and a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Research Grant from the German government (1995).
Dr. Smith’s presentations and publications deal with funerary art and ritual commemoration in the Roman world, and Roman glass.
Research Interests
Death and commemoration in the Late Antique/Early Christian world, Roman man-made glass, Gold-glass vessels of the ancient world, Catacombs of Rome, Values-based leadership in higher education, Curriculum efficiency, Pedagogy
Teaching Interests
Late Antique/Early Christian West, Byzantium, Medieval Art, Roman art and architecture, Greek art and architecture, Islamic art and architecture
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2000
Ph D, Art History
Rutgers University
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1989
BA, Art History
Washington & Lee University
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2015
Youngstown State University
Phi Kappa Phi
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2011
Youngstown State University
School of Graduate Studies, YSU Subvention Funding Award
Subvention funding for publication of Soprintendenza archeologica di Roma/Palatine East Excavation with De Luc Editori D'Arte.
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1997
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in the History of Art
Awarded a one-year (1997-98) dissertation finishing grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
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1995
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in the History of Art at Foreign Institutions
Awarded a two-year fellowship (1995-1997) to the Bibliotheca Hertziana/Max Planck Institute for Art History located in Rome, Italy.
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1995
US Fulbright Program
J. William Fulbright Fellowship
Awarded a one-year Fulbright fellowship (1995-96) for research in Rome, Italy.
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1995
German Government - DAAD
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Research Grant for PhD Candidates and Recent PhDs
Awarded a research grant through the DAAD for research in Heidelberg, Germany.
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2016
"Apocalypse; Glass: Gold; Glass: Gold (Jewish)"
S. Smith
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing -
2014
"Glass"
S. Smith
De Luca Editori D'Arte, volume 2, p. 117-168
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2020 - present
Other
Fulbright Scholar Liaison -
2017 - present
Other
College Board -
2007 - present
Other
National Association of Schools of Art & Design
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2022 - 2022
Judge
Scholastic Art Awards