Mississippi Valley State University will hold its Fall Faculty and Staff Institute on Wednesday, August 17 at 9 a.m. in the W.A. Butts Social Science Auditorium. The institute will feature Dr. Dorothy Vick Smith, Dean of the College of General Studies and the Conrad Hilton Endowed Professor of History at Dillard University.
Smith has taught at Southern University - New Orleans, Jackson State, Tougaloo College and the University of Kansas.
She earned degrees from Jackson State University and the University of Kansas in American History. She has earned additional continuing education hours in archival preparation from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Additionally, she studied the Russian language at the University of Iowa and conducted research in Russia and Ukraine. She has served as Visiting Senior Research Professor at Princeton University.
Smith’s publications appear in works by African and Asian Studies, Greenwood Press, Beacon Press, World Press/Red Sea Press, Black Issues in Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Journal of Southern History, African World News, Talking Drums, and The Journal of Negro History.
Furthermore, she has served as director of the Daniel C. Thompson-Samuel DuBois Cook Honors Program and as an outreach coordinator at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C.
