Christi Smith

Dr. Christi Smith is a sociologist focused on education, integration, and migration, holding a joint appointment at Georgetown University in the Institute for the Study of International Migration and the Program on Education, Inquiry, and Justice. Dr. Smith earned a B.A. from Smith College and both an M.A. in Education Policy and a Ph.D. in Sociology, with a focus on education and politics, from Indiana University. Before beginning graduate studies, she taught Danish and English literacy at a women’s refugee center in Copenhagen, Denmark, and secondary Social Studies in North Carolina. During graduate studies, she worked at the Indiana University Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, contributing to both research and assessments for federal and state K-12 program grants. Dr. Smith was awarded the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation’s Dissertation Fellowship. While serving as a visiting professor of Sociology at Oberlin College, she published her first book, Reparation and Reconciliation: The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education, with the University of North Carolina Press. Dr. Smith has spent significant time as a visiting scholar at the Universities of Mannheim and Konstanz in Germany and at Aarhus University in Denmark.