Dane Smith
Position title: TA: History 307 with Lecturer Ethan Cramer
Email: dssmith22@wisc.edu
Address:
Advisor: Leonora Neville
Mailbox: 4055 Mosse Humanities Building
Biography
My research focuses on ethnicity, religious identity, race, and other conceptions of difference in Byzantium. I am particularly interested in the historical anthropology and how conceptions of human difference manifested in state and popular actions.
On the side I am interested in how the European Middle Ages are depicted in modern media and the use of history by political actors.
Education
M.A., New York University
B.A., University of Pittsburgh
Field
- European History
MA Title
- “Byzantium & Barbarians: Roman Identity in the 8th-13th Centuries”