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Matthew Smith

Education

• Ph.D., History, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University
• M.A., History, University of Edinburgh
• B.A., History, University of Stirling

Teaching and Research Interests

• American religious history
• Appalachia
• The Ohio Valley
• Trans-Atlantic immigration

Courses Taught

• AMS 205 Intro to Appalachia
• HST 301 Age of Revolutions, Europe 1750-1850
• HST 363 Early American Republic, 1783-1815
• HST 363 Era of the American Revolution
• HST 197 and 198 World History
• HST 111 US History

Selected Publications

• "Revisiting Middletown, Ohio: The Midwest town at the heart of JD Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy,'" The Conversation (July 2024).
• "Washington Comes to the Cumberlands: Harry M. Caudill and the Cause of Appalachia," Kentucky Humanities magazine (Fall 2023).
• "The Spires Still Point to Heaven: Cincinnati’s Religious Landscape, 1788-1873" (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022).
• “Pandemic Redux: Revisiting Cincinnati’s 1849 Cholera in the Age of COVID-19,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (June 2020).
• “Unburying Daniel Boone,” Kentucky Humanities (Spring 2021).
• “The Specter of Cholera in Nineteenth Century Cincinnati,” Ohio Valley History (summer 2016).
• "Barton Warren Stone: Revisiting Revival in the Early Republic," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 111, no. 2 (Spring 2013).
• "John Bradford and the Kentucky Gazette: Revolutionizing the Ohio Valley," Ohio Valley History (summer 2010).

Grants and Awards

• P.I./ Project Director, “From War Zone to Home: A Humanities Dialogue” (2018-2019). $88,911 NEH grant for student veterans.
• P.I./ Project Director, "Industrial Strength Bluegrass" (2019-2020). $30,000 in grants, partnering with Smithsonian Folkways on recording album of southwest Ohio bluegrass music.
• Newberry Consortium Fund Grant, Newberry Library, Chicago. 2008.
• Graduate Student Fellowship, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky. 2008.
• Filson Fellowship, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky. 2008.