Geoff Smith, a native
of San Francisco but now a card-carrying Canadian, received his MA and PhD
from the University of California. He taught at Macalester College in St. Paul,
Minnesota, before moving to Queen's
University in 1969, where he is now professor of history and of physical and health
education.
Professor Smith's book, To Save a Nation: American "Extremism", the
New Deal, and the Coming of World War II (Basic Books, 1973) was
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in
history, and was reissued in paperback in 1992 with a new epilogue by Ivan
R. Dee, Inc., in Chicago. An article written for Queen's Quarterly
(Summer 1989), "Historical Perspectives on AIDS: Society, Culture and
STDs" was chosen for inclusion in Best Canadian Essays--1990,
Douglas Fetherling, ed. (Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1990). Recent articles
include "National Security and Personal Isolation: Sex, Gender, and
Disease in the Cold-War United States", International History
Review (May 1992); "Security, Gender, and the Historical Process" in
Diplomatic
History (Winter 1994); and "Peace History: A Many Splendored,
Splintered Thing", Reviews in American History (Fall 1993). He also
edited and wrote an introduction for a special issue of the journal
Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research (April 1996)--a
quarter-century retrospective on the Kent State shootings of 1970; a
critical essay on sport since 1950, "The Roar of the Greasepaint, the
Smell of the Crowd?" (Queen's Quarterly, Fall
1996); and a feature review essay for Diplomatic History entitled
"Beware the Historian! Hiroshima, the Enola Gay, and the Dangers of
History (Winter 1998).
His current research includes preparation of a monograph tentatively
titled Contagious Subversion: Sex, Gender and Disease in the National
Security Era. He is also interested in sport and culture in North
America as well as nativism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Professor
Smith is Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Peace History
Society (formerly the Council of Peace Research in History), Program
Chair for the annual meeting in
Toronto (June 2000) of the Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations (SHAFR 2000), and also served as PHS
President from 1995-97 as well as editor of the CPRH Newsletter
from 1992-95.
Professor Smith teaches the history of U.S. foreign
relations and security policy in the 20th century; "Conspiracy and Dissent in American History; Society and Culture in 20th century America; the
History of the Vietnam War; Sociology of Sport;
and Sport, Culture, and Society in 20th century America.
He also served as assistant coach and administrator for the Queen's
University intercollegiate basketball team, wrote a weekly column on sport
and culture for the Kingston
Whig-Standard (1986-90), and hosted a public affairs television
show ("This Olde City") (1997-98). In 1997 (Oct. 30-Nov. 11) he served as
guest lecturer on board the cruise liner Crystal Symphony from
Acapulco through the Panama Canal to New Orleans. He is also a
professional photographer and inveterate dog lover.
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