{"id":2315,"date":"2021-04-08T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2315"},"modified":"2021-04-08T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:24:38","slug":"dr-jason-scott-smith","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/dr-jason-scott-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jason Scott Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Smith has taught courses on modern American history, the Great Depression, and the history of capitalism since joining the faculty in 2006.\u00a0 He is the author of <em>Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956<\/em> and <em>A Concise History of the New Deal<\/em>, both published by Cambridge University Press.\u00a0 A specialist in the history of capitalism and political economy, Smith\u2019s research and teaching range from the nineteenth century through the global financial crisis of 2008.\u00a0 Before coming to UNM, he held fellowships at the Harvard Business School, where he was the Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History, and at Cornell University, where he served for two years as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies and visiting assistant professor of history and government. \u00a0In 2017, Smith received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award and was named the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/history\/about\/maryball\/\">Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History at University College Dublin, Ireland<\/a>.\u00a0 He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2317,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-2315","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Professor of History at the University of New Mexico","speaker_last_name":"Smith","speaker_classification":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/2315\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}