Stephanie D. Smith
Graduate Student
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About
I am a native Chicagoan and an alumna of UIC. Since returning to UIC as a graduate student, I worked as a teaching assistant and was privileged to serve as a graduate research assistant for Professors Sue Levine, Lynn Hudson, and Jane Rhodes. I also was a part of a dynamic team at the Midwest Nursing History Research Center located in UIC's College of Nursing that created an oral history archive and an academic website detailing Chicago archives and repositories with relevant holdings pertaining to the history of Chicago's Black nurses.
UIC Courses/Teaching Assistant
- HIST 103 Early America: From Colonization to Civil War and Reconstruction
- HIST 104 Modern America: From Industrialization to Globalization
- HIST 105 Global Transformations and the Rise of the West Since 1000
- HIST 255 History of Chicago
- HIST 259 History of American Women
- BLST 100 Introduction to Black Studies
Selected Publications
“Selfridges & Co.: The Chicago Origins of a London Merchant.” Prologue 47, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 46-52
Notable Honors
2009, Excellence in Genealogy Award, 2nd Place Winner, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.
Education
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
-PhD candidate, Department of History
--PhD, expected Fall 2026
Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois
-Doctor of Philosophy, Library and Information Science, August 2015
--Dissertation: Passing Shadows: Illuminating the Veiled Legacy of Belle da Costa Greene
- Master of Library and Information Science, August 2008
The John Marshall Law School (now UIC School of Law), Chicago, Illinois
- Master of Laws in Information Technology and Privacy Law, with honors, January 2013
- Master of Laws in Intellectual Property, May 2011
- Juris Doctor, May 2006
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Bachelor of Arts, African American Studies, May 1998
Research Currently in Progress
I am researching the multiple court-martials of Black soldiers during WWI for the rape of a white woman, the reassignment of Colonel Charles Young, and the assignment of Black nurses who were the first to serve in the Army Nurse Corps all of which occurred at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois in 1918.