Mark M. Smith is an American historian and the Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina

University of South Carolina

The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with 7 surrounding satellite campuses. Its historic campus covers over in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House...

. Smith holds a B.A. University of Southampton

University of Southampton

The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...

 (1988) & M.A. University of South Carolina (1991) and a Ph.D. University of South Carolina (1995).

Smith is a scholar of sensory history, which he described to an interviewer as stressing “the role of the senses-—including sight and vision-—in shaping people's experiences in the past and shows how they understood their worlds and why.”

Books

• 1997: Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (co-winner of the Organization of American Historians
  Organization of American Historians
  The Organization of American Historians , formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S...
  
  ' 1998 Avery O. Craven Award
  Avery O. Craven Award
  The Avery O. Craven Award, first given in 1985, is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the most original history book on the coming of the American Civil War, the Civil War years , or the Era of Reconstruction , with the exception of works of purely military history....
  
   and South Carolina Historical Society
  South Carolina Historical Society
  The South Carolina Historical Society is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1855 to preserve South Carolina's rich historical legacy...
  
  's Book of the Year)
• 1998: Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South. Cambridge University Press
• 2000: The Old South, (as editor). Oxford: Blackwell
• 2001: Listening to Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
• 2004: Hearing History: a reader, (as editor). Athens: University of Georgia Press