{"id":7805,"date":"2026-01-22T16:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/ashley-e-smith\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:49:45","slug":"ashley-e-smith","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/ashley-e-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley E. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B.A. Wheaton College, MA; French Studies and Anthropology<\/p>\n<p>M.A., Ph.D. Cornell University; Anthropology and American Indian and Indigenous Studies<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Public Scholarship:<\/p>\n<p>2022 \u201cStories of Nanrantsouak\/Norridgewock Village: Understanding the Legacies of our Shared Histories of Violence\u201d\u00a0<em>in\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/skowheganhistoryhouse.org\/speaker-series\/\">Wabanaki Voices Speaker Series<\/a>. Skowhegan History House, Maine.<\/p>\n<p>2021 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hiddendrives.wordpress.amherst.edu\/2021\/01\/11\/indigenous-homelands\/\">Indigenous Homelands, Maps, Erasures<\/a>&#8221; <em>in<\/em> Hidden Drives: The Scene and Unseen of Home. Center for Humanistic Inquiry and the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College.<\/p>\n<p>2020 &#8220;&#8216;The First Idea is That of the River&#8217;: Indigenous Interventions in Historical Inquiry, OR, how do we &#8216;River It?'&#8221;\u00a0<em>in<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/openrivers.lib.umn.edu\/article\/teaching-the-history-of-american-rivers\/\">All Water Has Memory, Rivers and American History<\/a>. A Jefferson Scholars Foundation Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1952,"featured_media":7897,"template":"","class_list":["post-7805","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-collective-memory","expertise-decolonization","expertise-maine","expertise-native-american-and-indigenous-studies","expertise-new-england","expertise-place-making","expertise-politics-of-history-and-memory","expertise-settler-colonial-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7898,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7805\/revisions\/7898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}