Education
Columbia University:
Ph.D., Political Science, 1999
Dissertation: "Overcoming the Collective Action Dilemma: Political Participation in Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual Pride Marches"
M.Phil., Political Science, 1996 (American Politics, minor in Comparative Politics)
Fellow of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, President's Fellow
Yale University:
M.A., International Relations, 1991
Fellow of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Drew University:
B.A. summa cum laude with departmental honors, 1989
Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha
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Personal Statement
Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D. is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Columbia University. He is also on the adjunct faculty of the Master's Program in the Department of Politics at NYU. He completed his doctoral work at Columbia (1999) and also holds an M.A. in international relations from Yale. (1991)
Dr. Smith specializes on the issue of majority rule and minority rights in American democracy, and has taught a wide variety of lecture courses and research seminars on related themes. Based upon his teaching experience at Barnard and elsewhere, he published a supplemental textbook for use in introductory American politics courses entitled The American Anomaly: U.S. Politics and Government in Comparative Perspectice (Routledge Publishers, 2007).
From 1999-2005, Dr. Smith was general editor of the eight-volume political science book series "Political Participation in America." The series covered protest politics, interest group and social movement participation, electoral and party participation, and public office-holding among a variety of sectors of the American electorate, including African Americans, East Asian Americans, Native Americans, Latino Americans, American Jews, conservative Christian Americans, American women, and gay and lesbian Americans. He was co-author of the series volume on Gay and Lesbian Americans and Political Participation (ABC-CLIO 2002), and is also co-author of the social movements book Drugs into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism (Praeger, 2006). Currently, he is editing a volume of primary documents, with commentary, about the politics of sexuality in the United States since 1965 (Greenwood Publishers, 2008).
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