Mark M. Smith is an American historian and the Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Smith holds a B.A. University of Southampton (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.”
1997: Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (co-winner of the Organization of American Historians' 1997 Avery O. Craven Award and South Carolina Historical Society'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