Assistant Professor of Sociology
Peace and Conflict Studies Program

Phone: (610) 690-2064
email: Lsmithe1@swarthmore.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2006
Tuesday & Thursday 4:15-5:15pm
Kohlberg 241

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
M.A., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
B.A., Sociology and Music, Emory University, 1992

Selected Publications and Activities:

Smithey, Lee and Lester R. Kurtz. 2002. "Parading Persuation: Nonviolent Collective Action as Discourse in Northern Ireland." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. Vo. 24: 319-359.

Smithey, Lee, Kathleen A. Nybroten, and r. Jason LaTurner. 2000. "Teaching Graduate-level Evaluation Socilogy through a Departmental Evaluation." The American Sociologist. Winter: 64-71.

Smithey, Lee and Lester R. Kurtz. 1999. "We Have Bare Hands: Nonviolent Social Movements in the Soviet Bloc." Pp. 96-124 in The Geography of Nonviolence edited by Stephen Zunes, Lester R. Kurtz and Sarah Beth Asher. London: Blackwell.

Teaching and Research Interests:

Peace and Conflict Studies, Social Movements, Conflict Transformation, Northern Ireland, Qualitative Methods and Nonviolent Action.

Courses and Seminars Taught

Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies (PEAC 015)
Transforming [Allegedly] Intractable Conflict (SOAN 025B)
Nonviolent Social Movements (SOAN 035B)
Peace Studies and Action (PEAC 077)