Professor Leonard Smith

Leonard V. Smith (Ph.D. Columbia, 1990) is Frederick B. Artz Professor
of History. His most recent book is The Embattled Self: French Soldiers'
Testimony of the Great War (Cornell University Press, 2007). He is also
the author of France and the Great War, 1914-1918 (with Stéphane
Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker, Cambridge University Press, 2003),
Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry
Division During World War I (Princeton University Press, 1994), and
co-editor of France at War: Vichy and the Historians (Berg, 2000, French
edition 2004). Smith has held fellowships from the Rockefeller
Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National
Humanities Center, and has been a visiting professor at the Université
de Paris VII, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and in
the Associated Kyoto Program at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He
is on leave for the 2008-2009 academic year, as William F. Podlich
Distinguished Fellow at Claremont McKenna College (Fall Semester) and as a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The
Ohio State University (Spring Semester).

Email: Leonard.V.Smith@oberlin.edu
Office: On leave