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Margaret Eastman Smith
Margaret Eastman Smith has devoted her life to exploring the nexus between personal growth and social change. Her doctoral research, at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, focused on new ways dissemination of historical ideas can be used to mitigate conflict. That research issued in Reckoning with the Past: Teaching History in Northern Ireland (Lexington Books, 2005).
Between 1999 and 2017 she was on the faculty of the Program on International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University. Her areas of specialization include nationalist and ethnic conflict, uses of memory in politics, and post-conflict reconstruction in deeply divided societies.
Before becoming an academic, she worked with the international program of Initiatives of Change, spending four years in Papua New Guinea and a further four years in Richmond, Virginia working on projects to improve community relations.
