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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Margaret E. Smith

Margaret E. Smith
International Politics
Email: mesmith@american.edu
Phone: (202)895-4910

Margaret Smith has taught Political Science, History, and Conflict Resolution at Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, The College of the Holy Cross, and Mount Ida College. She was an Associate of Harvard University's Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution from 1997 to 2002. Dr. Smith earned her Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University. Her Doctoral research focused on the teaching of history in Northern Ireland and the question of how reformed history teaching can provide a mechanism for post-conflict peacebuilding. Her research interests include nationalism and ethnicity, European history, conflict resolution, and uses of memory. Before completing her Ph.D., Dr. Smith worked overseas with conflict resolution programs in Europe, Australia, and Papua New Guinea, as well as in the U.S. In Papua New Guinea, she worked mostly with women, assisting them in confronting the uncertainties faced with the coming of independence. During the 1990s, Dr. Smith has traveled a number of times to the region formerly known as Yugoslavia and to Northern Ireland, and has participated in conflict resolution work in Cyprus, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Middle East. Dr. Smith's high school education was in Glasgow, Scotland, and her Bachelor's degree is from Boston University.

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