1 JENNY LEIGH SMITH - Ivan Allen College - Georgia Institute of ...

JENNY LEIGH SMITH
Assistant Professor of History
School of History, Technology and Society, Ivan Allen College
Georgia Institute of Technology
221 Bobby Dodd Way Atlanta, GA 30332-0225
(404) 894-1819
jenny.smith@hts.gatech.edu
I. EARNED DEGREES
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Ph.D. 2006 in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society
MACALESTER COLLEGE
B.A 1999 in Biology and French
II.
EMPLOYMENT
Georgia Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of History: Spring 2009-present
Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of History: Fall 2006-Summer 2008
III.
TEACHING
A. COURSES TAUGHT
Georgia Institute of Technology
HIST 1001: Introduction to the History of Technology and Society (Spring 2010) 24 students,
majors only
HIST 3803: History of Technology and the Environment in the 20 th Century (Fall 2009) 19
students, upper level undergraduate
HIST 3813: Russia in the 20th Century (Spring 2009) 18 students, upper level undergraduate
HIST 6102 Cold War in Socialist Europe (Spring 2009) 4 students, graduate seminar
Yale University
HIST 455: Conservation: A Global History (Spring 2008) 12 students, upper level undergraduate
HIST 478: Science, Technology & Modern Consumers (Spring 2007) 14 students, upper level
undergraduate
B. INDIVIDUAL STUDENT GUIDANCE
Yale University
Senior Honors Thesis Advisor: Kali Nelson, Rachel Litt, Morgan Price, Alina Nevins
C. OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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STS011: Ethical Dilemmas in American Science (Fall 2003) Teaching Assistant
21H083: Soviet Politics and Society (Spring 2004) Teaching Assistant
IV.
SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A. PUBLISHED BOOKS AND PARTS OF BOOKS
BOOK CHAPTER:
"Empire of Ice Cream: How Life Got Sweeter in the Postwar Soviet Union" in Food Chains: From
Farmyard to Shopping Cart eds. Roger Horowitz and Warren Belasco, University of Pennsylvania
Press, Philadelphia 2008 304 pp.
B. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
‘Wheat” and “Oats” Commodities, Culture and History: the Products that Have Changed the
World, Facts on File, 2010.
“Agriculture” Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, Academic International Press,
2008.
C. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
(N/A)
D. PRESENTATIONS
City University of New York, International Workshop on Lysenkoism, December 2009,
invited lecture
Mississippi State University History Department, October 2009, invited lecture
World Environmental History Conference, Copenhagen, DK, August 2009, invited
presentation
University of Georgia History Department, December 2008, invited lecture
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Center for Russian and East European
Studies, September 2008, invited lecture
Michigan Institute of Technology, LASHIPA Conference, May 2008, invited lecture
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, BOREAS Workshop March 2008,
invited presentation
American Society of Environmental History, March 2008, invited presentation
E. OTHER SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
(N/A)
V. SERVICE
A. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
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Rachel Carson Prize Committee, American Society for Environmental History, 2010
Society for the History of Technology, Robinson Prize Committee 2009
Guest Panelist, Workshop in the History of Agriculture, Environment, Technology and Science
Reviewer for Historical Geography
Reviewer for Technology and Culture
Reviewer for Agricultural History
VI.
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
A. AS PRINCIPAL AND CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
(N/A)
B. AS INVESTIGATOR
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant SES0449767
NSF Arctic Social Sciences Postdoctoral Research Mentorship Travel Grant
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