A. Lynn Smith

Dr. A. Lynn Smith is a historical anthropologist whose research explores settler colonialism, memory and forgetting, colonialism and place-loss. Her new book, "Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779," contrasts the official story of a Revolutionary War expedition with that told by Seneca and other Native American leaders and at Haudenosaunee cultural centers. Previous publications consider colonial nostalgia with the award-winning "Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France" (2006); the silencing of Native and Latino voices in local history museums in the American southwest; and the role of place-loss in community identities in the aftermath of forced removal in "Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past" (2016). Dr. Smith is professor of anthropology at Lafayette College, Easton, PA.