Tom Smith
| 3rd year PhD student at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | MPhil in Historical Studies, University of Cambridge | BA in History, University of Cambridge |
“I believe academic research should reach out beyond the walls of academia, looking to engage, to inspire, and to allow for fresh perspectives on what it means to be human.”
Current research: The role of ideas about the past in American engagement with the Pacific world, c. 1880-1920
Interests: Transnational history | U.S. politics | religion and belief | digital humanities and public engagement
Blog posts:
- World at their Feet: The World Cup and History (19 June 2018)
- History, policy, and religion: a conversation (5 June 2018, co-authored)
- Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. (10 April 2018)
- Build the Wall?: The Perspective of an American in the Philippines (23 January 2018)
- Limericks, love, and loss in the archives (advent calendar post, 6 December 2017)
- A Captive Audience?: Prisons as Public History (24 October 2017)
- ‘All Men are Created Equal’? Race and the Declaration of Independence in American Museums (2 May 2017)
- The Wandering Historian: Reflections on a Year of Research Abroad (21 February 2017)
- ‘Where are the Dinosaurs?’: Reflections on Public History at the Museum of Jurassic Technology (25 October 2016)
- Editorial: DHP’s top historical novels (4 October 2016, co-authored)
- ‘Our story remains unwritten’: the ethics of writing histories across cultures (31 May 2016)
- Editorial: Top history reads (26 January 2016, co-authored)
- Christmas Island (advent calendar post, 14 December 2015)
- Christmas in the South Sea Islands (advent calendar post, 9 December 2015)
- EEBO, the RSA, and #proquestgate – the open resource debate (26 November 2015, co-authored)
- Dressing up and steaming ahead: must-visit museums (12 November 2015, co-authored)
