Gail Smith

Minority Access/Graduate Networking in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (MAGNET-STEM II)
City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center

Gail Smith, currently serving as acting assistant provost at The Graduate Center of New York, is the principal investigator and program director of the NSF/CUNY AGEP and the NIH/Bridges to the Doctorate Programs.

Gail received her Ph.D. in classical philology from New York University with a thesis entitled The Importance of Miracle to the Religion of Plutarch of Chaeroneia. Since 1999 she has served as Principal Investigator/Program Director for two CUNY-wide graduate education programs geared toward broadening participation in the STEM and SBE sciences: the National Institutes of Health/Bridges to the Doctorate Program and the National Science Foundation Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program. In this capacity, Dr. Smith works with administrators and faculty throughout CUNY as well as with CUNY's partnering institutions - New Jersey Institute of Technology, Polytechnic at New York University, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University - to provide financial, social and professional development support for master's and doctoral students from underrepresented groups in STEM and SBE fields with a view to diversifying the professoriate.

Dr. Smith combines her commitment to this mission with research in classical studies as professor of classics at Brooklyn College. A former editor and book reviewer for The Classical Outlook, she has published on ancient drama and is completing books on Euripidean tragedy and on Plutarch's religious philosophy. Dr. Smith is also reading source materials for a book on African American Women Writers and the Classical Tradition.