Current Position:

Professor

Address:

	Department of History
	921 University Hall (M/C 198)
	601 South Morgan Street
	University of Illinois at Chicago
	Chicago, IL 60607-7109
	Office Phone: (312) 996-8077
	Fax: (312) 996-6377
	Email: dansmith@uic.edu

Education:



Office of Population Research, Princeton University	Certificate in demography	1974
University of California, Berkeley	Ph.D. (history)	1973
University of California, Berkeley	M.A.	1965
University of Florida	B.A. (high honors)	1963

 
 
 

Positions:

• Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1983-; Associate professor, 1977-83; Assistant professor, 1974-77.
• Associate director, Family and Community History Center, Newberry Library, 1974-82.
• Assistant professor, instructor, Department of History, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1971-74.

• President, Social Science History Association, 1987-88
• Vice- president, Soci al Science History Association, 1986-87
• Editor, Historical Methods, 1979-1990.
• Editorial Board Member, American Historical Review, 1994-97
• Editorial Board Member, Historical Methods, 1992-97
• Editorial Board Member, Continuity and Change, 1986-90
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Family History, 1996-
• Editorial Board Member, Social Science History, 1977-84; 1994-96
• Editorial Board Member, Cambridge University Press Series on Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time, 1984-93.
  
• Award for best article in William and Mary Quarterly for 1994

Professional:

• Fellowship, University of Illinois Institute for the Humanities fellowship, 2001-2002
• Fellowship, Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1990-91
• Research Grant, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1988-1992
• Grant, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, 1989-91
• Fellowship, University of Illinois Institute for the Humanities fellowship, 1986-87
• University Scholar Award, University of Illinois, 1985-88
• Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1985
• Fulbright Fellowship, University of Lund, Sweden, Spring 1984
• Newberry Library Senior NEH Fellowship, 1983-84
• American Association for State and Local History grant, 1983-84
• Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 1977-78
• Co-investigator, Research Grant, National Institute on Aging, 1977-79
• Grant, American Philosophical Society, 1976
• Fellowship, Population Council, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, 1973-74
  
  

Recent Publications:

• "Introduction: Naming Practices, Family Structures, and Kinship Change," with Frans van Poppel, The History of the Family: An International Quarterly 4 (1999), 229-37.
• "Population and Political Ethics: Thomas Jefferson's Demography of Generations," William and Mary Quarterly 3d Series, 56 (July 1999), 591-612
• "`The Number and Quality of Children': Education and Marital Fertility in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa," Journal of Social History 30 (Winter 1996), 367-92.
• "Cultural Demography: New England Deaths and the Puritan Perception of Risk" (with J. David Hacker), Journal of Interdisciplinary History 26 (Winter 1996), 367-392.
• "Recent Change and the Periodization of American Family History," Journal of Family History 20 (Fall 1995), 329-346.
• "The Demography of Widowhood in Preindustrial New Hampshire," in David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett, eds., Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1995), 249-272.
• "Behind and Beyond the Law of the Household," William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 52 (January 1995), 145-50.
• "Female Householding in Late Eighteenth-Century America and the Problem of Poverty," Journal of Social History 28 (Fall 1994), 83-107.
• "Illegitimacy Trends in a Southern County: Comment," Journal of Family History 19 (1994), 195-96.
• "A Higher Quality of Life for Whom? Mouths to Feed and Clothes to Wear in the Families of Late Nineteenth-Century American Workers," Journal of Family History 19 (1994), 1-34.
• "Continuity and Discontinuity in Puritan Naming: Massachusetts, 1771," William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 51 (January 1994), 67-91.
• "American Family and Demographic Patterns and the Northwest European Model," Continuity and Change 8 (December 1993), 389-415.
• "The Curious History of Theorizing about the History of the Western Nuclear Family," Social Science History 17 (Fall 1993), 325-353.
• "Noble Dream, Dead Certainties, Sophomoric Stance: Historical Objectivity for Adults: A Review Essay," Historical Methods 26 (Fall 1993), 183-188.
• "The Meanings of Family and Household: Change and Continuity in the Mirror of the American Census," Population and Development Review 18 (September 1992), 421-456.
• "Context, Time, History," in Peter Karsten and John Modell, eds., Theory, Method, and Practice in Social and Cultural History (New York: New York University Press, 1992), 13-32.
• "Mortality Differentials before the Health Transition," Health Transition Review 1 (1991), 235-237.
• "`All in Some Degree Related to Each Other': A Demographic and Comparative Resolution of the Anomaly of New England Kinship," American Historical Review 94 (February 1989), 44-79.