Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith

Division

  • Identity: Gender, Race and Region

Classification

  • PhD Student

Title

  • History Resource Center

Contact

nrs271@msstate.edu
662-325-3604

I am a PhD Candidate from Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. I am interested in Southern U.S. history, specifically the New Right, political realignment, and labor. Currently, my research focuses on the Walt Disney Company and political economy. My dissertation project is titled, “‘It’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow’: A Labor History of the Disney Parks and Edutainment from 1950-2005”.

Ph.D. History, Mississippi State University, 2018 – Current
M.A. History, Iowa State University, 2016 – 2018
B.A. History, Iowa State University, 2009 – 2014

Inaugural Co-Director, MSU History Resource Center 2022.

Lecturer, Modern U.S. History from 1877, Mississippi State University, Summer 2022

Teaching Assistant, Modern U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Fall 2021

Editorial Assistant, Environmental History, Aug. 2020-Aug. 2021

Lecturer, Early U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Summer 2020

Teaching Assistant, Modern U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Spring 2020

Teaching Assistant, Early U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Fall 2019

Teaching Assistant, Mississippi History, Mississippi State University, Spring 2019

Teaching Assistant, Early U.S. History, Mississippi State University, Fall 2018

Teaching Assistant, Iowa History, Iowa State University, Spring 2018

Teaching Assistant, U.S. History I, Iowa State University, Fall 2017

Review of The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream by Jason Vuic for Environmental History 27, No. 3 (July 2022): 576-577.

Steen-Adams, M., Anderson, S. Bissonette, L., Hersey, M., Himel, M., Cook, S., Meares, L. Cagle, N.,  Mindlin, L, Livingston, F. McCourt, P. Smith, N. Thomas, K.S., Lehman, E. and MacCleery, D. User Guide: Educational Resource Catalogue on the History of Land Conservation, Washington D.C.: The Land Trust Alliance, in press.    

Steen-Adams, M., Hersey, M., Himel, M., Bissonette, L., Cook, S., Meares, L., Mindlin, L., Livingston, F., McCourt, P., Smith, N., Thomas, K.S.,  Anderson, S., Lehman, E., and Cagle, N. 2021. Educational Resource Catalogue on the History of Land Conservation. Washington D.C.: The Land Trust Alliance, forthcoming.

“‘The Third Battle of Manassas’: The Blue, the Grey, and the Mouse,” at the St. George Tucker Society Annual Conference, Milledgeville, GA, July 2019.

“‘The Third Battle of Manassas’: The Blue, the Grey, and the Mouse,” paper delivered at the “Examining the American Experience”: A Cultural Studies Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, October 2019.

Roy V. Scott Graduate Assistantship, Mississippi State University, 2018-present
Graduate Assistantship, Iowa State University, 2017-2018

Member, Southern Historical Association