Leonard V. Smith
- Frederick B. Artz Professor of History
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Leonard V. Smith Recent Book Published
September 13, 2023
In July, a book by Frederick B. Artz Professor of History Leonard V. Smith, French Colonialism from the Ancien Régime to the Present, was published in the New Approaches to European History series by Cambridge University Press. It is dedicated to the Oberlin students who took History 282, the course on which the book is based.
Leonard Smith Recent Articles Published
August 23, 2023
Frederick B. Artz Professor of History Leonard V. Smith published two articles continuing his research on the history of international law: “State Sovereignty,” in Peter Jackson, William Mulligan, and Glenda Sluga, eds., Peacemaking and International Order After the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), and “International Law and the Greek-Bulgarian and Greek-Turkish Population Exchanges,” in Jonathan Conlin and Ozan Ozavci, eds., They All Made Peace—What is Peace?: The 1923 Lausanne Treaty and the New Imperial Order (London: Ginko Library, 2023).
Leonard V. Smith Articles Published
December 9, 2022
Leonard V. Smith has recently published two articles, “The Armistices of 1918,” Richerche Stroriche 52: 2 (2022): 9-25; and “The Politics of Recognition at the Paris Peace Conference,” in Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe, 1918-1923: The War that Never Ended, Tomasz Pudłocki and Kamil Ruszała, eds., (Routledge, 2022), 9-34. Both are extrapolations from his most recent book, Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (Oxford, 2018).
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship Awarded to Leonard Smith
January 3, 2022
Frederick B. Artz Professor of History Leonard V. Smith has been awarded a three-month, Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute. The institute is located in a villa just outside Florence, Italy. He will begin work on a project comparing law, liberalism, and racial exclusion in 19th century Texas and French Algeria.
Leonard V. Smith Publishes Article
January 31, 2020
Leonard V. Smith ’80, Frederick B Artz Professor of History, published an article titled: "Sovereignty under the League of Nations Mandates: The Jurists' Debates," in the December 2019 issue of Journal of the History of International Law. The article argues that mandates after World War I were never "colonies" in a traditional legal sense and that jurists were never able to agree on just what they were instead.
Leonard Smith Receives Grant for Book Research
September 27, 2019
Professor of History Leonard Smith is writing a book for Cambridge University Press on the history of French colonialism from the Old Regime to the present. In support of the project, he received funding from Oberlin's Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) implementation grant for travel to Vietnam during winter term 2020, to study the environmental footprint left by the French.
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Lessons from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
September 20, 2018