Biography of Associate Professor Stephanie Smith


Dr. Smith received a BA from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA in 1989, and an MA and PhD (2000) from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She has been a member of the YSU Department of Art faculty since 1998.

Dr. Smith has received many fellowships and honors including a Fullbright 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. Dr. Smith is currently completing the forthcoming publication of the man-made glass from the Sopritendenza Archeologica di Roma/American Academy in Rome Palatine East excavation, one of the largest assemblages of late antique glass to be published for the city of Rome.