Dr. A. Lynn Smith is a historical anthropologist whose research explores settler colonialism, memory and forgetting, colonialism and place-loss. Her new book, Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779, contrasts the official story of a Revolutionary War expedition with that told by Seneca and other Native American leaders and at Haudenosaunee cultural centers.
Previous publications consider colonial nostalgia with the award-winning Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France (2006); the silencing of Native and Latino voices in local history museums in the American southwest; and the role of place-loss in community identities in the aftermath of forced removal in Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past (2016). Dr. Smith is professor of anthropology at Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
She is also the author, co-author, or editor of: Messy Europe: Racialization and Crisis in a Postcolonial World (2018); Europe’s Invisible Migrants (2003); and Teaching the Isms: Feminist Pedagogy across the Disciplines (2010).
Smith is the recipient of many honors, awards, grants, and fellowships, including National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Excellence in Community Engagement Pedagogy Award, Richard King Mellon Research Fellowship.