Rate My Professor Gregory Smithers

Smithers has authored numerous books that have shaped scholarship in Native American and African American history. His publications include Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Beacon Press, 2022), Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019), Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780-1940, revised second edition (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (Yale University Press, 2015), co-authored Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito (Praeger Press, 2015), and Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence & Memory in African American History (University Press of Florida, 2012). His work has garnered significant recognition, including the Independent Publishers Book Award in Multicultural Non-Fiction (2017) for The Cherokee Diaspora, Historical Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians (2016), Award of Excellence from the East Tennessee Historical Society (2016), British Academy Global Professorship (2019), Virginia Humanities Fellow (2019), Wills Research Fellow from the Tennessee Historical Society (2018), and Visiting U.S. Fellow at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library (2015). Smithers' scholarship connects historical narratives to contemporary issues of social justice, environmental sustainability, racial equity, and gender equity.