Alexia Smith

Alexia Smith, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, specializes in archaeology, ancient plant use, and the ways in which people have adapted to climate change across the globe in antiquity. She has worked in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Armenia, Spain, Austria, the UK, and Malaysia and has travelled extensively throughout the world, including several trips to Iceland where she studied local landforms and cultural histories. Her research focuses on early agriculture and how people adapted to climate change in the past, but more recently, she has become fascinated with the cultural history of food. She is a former Fulbright Scholar, has published numerous articles in prominent journals, has received funding from the National Science Foundation to further her research and teaching, and has received university awards for her advising. Alexia has formal academic training in Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Irrigation Engineering, African Studies, and Anthropology. Alexia received her Ph.D. in Archaeology from Boston University and currently teaches courses on Great Discoveries in Archaeology across the globe, ancient plant use in antiquity, Ecological Anthropology, and Early Civilizations.

 

Language spoken: english