Mark Smith, PhD

Professor of History

Contact:: msmith@collegeofidaho.edu

208-459-5852
Expertise:: The Roman Empire, Ancient to Modern Christianity, Ancient Greece, Archaeology, Religious Studies, Ancient Languages, Classics, Medieval Europe, Renaissance/Reformation.

Education

Ph. D., Ancient/Medieval/Reformation History, University of California, Santa Barbara

M. A., Ancient/Medieval/Reformation History, University of California, Santa Barbara

MDiv., Church History, Denver Seminary

B.A., Religious Studies, Westmont College

Professional Experience

Dr. Smith is a member of the Board of Supervisors of the Bethsaida Excavations in Israel, and formerly served as the Academic Vice President of The College of Idaho for ten years.

Personal Statement

Mark Smith began teaching at The College of Idaho in 1989. His scholarly interests include ancient/medieval Western civilization, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, medieval Europe, the reformation, history of Christianity, ancient Greek and Latin. Dr. Smith has published several articles, including:

"Eusebius of Caesarea and the Fate of Bethsaida" and "Bethsaida in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder," in the Bethsaida Excavations Report, Vol. 3 (2005).

"The Religious Coinage of Constantius I" Byzantion (2001)

"Of Jesus and Quirinius" Catholic Biblical Quarterly (2000)

"A Tale of Two Julias: Julia, Julias and Josephus," in the Bethsaida Excavations Report, Vol. 2 (1999).

"The Religion of Constantius I" Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies (1998).

He also published a computer program in 1988 called Pharos, an application for searching and analyzing Greek literary texts in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (now converted to Windows and distributed as Musaios).

Dr. Smith has led study tours in Greece, Hawaii, Turkey and Italy.

Beyond the classroom: Dr. Smith is often to be found on the tennis court, on the basketball court (MWF at 11:30 for the past 22 years), on the golf course, on the slopes at Bogus, waterskiing at cascade, scuba diving in Hawaii, building homes with campus ministries in Tijuana, flying a Cessna over the Sawtooths, playing the drums, piano, or guitar, birding, hiking, or laying low at home with Debi, his wife of 32 years, and a C of I alumna. They have two children: Diana, who serves as a school counselor in Kazakhstan, and Zeus, a 75 pound golden retriever, who really does believe he rules the world from Mount Olympus.

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Mark Smith, PhD

Education

Professional Experience