Faculty Profile

Greg Smith has taught for Cornell in Rome since 2003. Over the years he has been a faculty member of many American and British universities in Italy, including The American University (Washington, DC), The University of California (EAP), Temple University, and Notthingham Trent University. He was the Dean of Academic Affairs at The American University of Rome for over a decade. He has carried out extensive research in rural parts of Italy, where he maintains an interest in food production and distribution. He also has extensive research background in the city of Rome. 

Smith is currently on the steering committee for the Biennial of Public Space, organized by the Italian National Planning Institute (INU Lazio). This international initiative brings together scholars and planners working on public space in Italy and in the world. Within the Biennial he is codirecting a special session on the history of public space in Rome, as well as a session on teaching urban studies workshops. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University.

• CRP 4160 Rome Workshop
• CRP 3720 Contemporary Italy: Politics and Society

• Storia e antropologia nella Marsica moderna, Luco dei Marsi: Aleph Editrice (2011)
• "Social Anthropological Considerations on the Predictability and Unpredictability of Community Outcomes," in Complex Matters of the Mind by Franco Orsucii (1998)
• "Caos e fatalita" in Fra ordine e caos,  eds. Marcello Turno, Elena Lotta, Franco Orsucci (1996)

• "Rome Planning Workshop: From an experiential to a reflexive approach," with Mildred Warner, Carlotta Fioretti, and Claudia Meschiari, presentation made at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (2010)
• "Prossemita e distanza cittadina." lecture given at Rome City Hall in a conference organized on urban distress (2009)
• "Media and the Appropriation of Place in Central Italy: a Geosemiotic Analysis," paper presented at the International Visual Sociology Association Conference (2009)