Jamaican-born poet to read next week

Born in Jamaica to Afro-Jamaican and Venezuelan parents, Shara McCallum is a self-described Caribbean, Jamaican, American, African-American, West Indian woman writer. She will perform at Smith on Tuesday, December 4.

Shara earned a B.A. from the University of Miami, an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and African American and [...]

AMS student studies “sister college relationship” between Smith and China

Yuanyuan Liu AMS '12 (pictured here in Shanghai) is spending a year at Smith and completing her PhD at Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Yuanyuan “Sheena” Liu AMS ’12, from China, is a current student in theĀ American Studies (AMS) program at Smith College. The highly competitive one-year program is open only to international students and [...]