Courteney Smith

Courteney Smith is a Ph.D. student in the history department. Her advisor is Arianne Chernock. Her dissertation project is a spatial history of the women’s movement in Britain, assessing the role local, regional, national, and imperial identities played in shaping the movement and the ways in which the movement shaped both those identities and the places they represent. Courteney is particularly interested in approaching British history from a Four Nations perspective and in highlighting the contributions women have made to both British and European history. To learn more about Smith’s research and publications, visit her wepage.

In Spring 2024, Courteney received a CISS Summer mini-grant to support subscriptions to Archives which offer access to hundreds of digitized newspapers, enabling me to perform key word searches and systematic samplings allowing her to trace shifts in how people were writing—and consequently thinking—about the places where advocates for women’s rights drove change. Learn more in our featured article.