Biography

Duke University - Economics

Dean of Academic Affairs & Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke University
Martin
Smith
As an Assistant Professor of Education at Duke University, Dr. Martin P. Smith is a student first educator. Dr. Smith teaches Reflective Practice and School Leadership, Education 101: Foundations of American Education and his signature course, developed in 2016: Race, Power and Identity: From Ali to Kaepernick. He served as the Director of Duke’s Secondary Teacher Preparation Program and was the Faculty Director of the DukeEngage Boston Summer Literacy Program. He co-directed DukeImmerse India, accompanying undergraduate students to Pune, India where they observed Indian K-12 teachers and completed a miniature teaching practicum. As the co-director of the DukeImmerse Civil Rights Tour, he facilitated conversations on racial reconciliation, Afrocentric history and anti-racist work for preservice teachers; travelling with students to Greensboro, NC, Montgomery and Selma, AL and Atlanta, GA, where they visited museums, churches, and historical sites, and attended teacher trainings.

Dr. Smith first fused his passion for education and sport at the University of California at Berkeley, earning both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education while playing on the basketball team. At Berkeley, he won the 2006 Jake Gimbell Award which honors the student most committed to academic and athletic excellence.

After graduating from Berkeley, he worked in San Diego’s inner city, teaching geometry at Lincoln High School and adult education at San Diego Community College. He also established the Phil Smith Basketball Camp to honor his late father, NBA All-Star Phil Smith, using basketball as a means to promote academic achievement. In pursuit of his passions, Dr. Smith has traveled extensively, directing basketball clinics in China, the Philippines and Panama. Furthermore, he was the Lead Teacher’s Assistant at the University of Cape Town, South Africa facilitating a course examining the effects of apartheid and American segregation on contemporary Black, urban economic development. He completed his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in Cultural Studies in Education at The University of Texas at Austin. He then conducted post-doctoral research in Spanish at UT’s Mesoamerica Center in Antigua, Guatemala, studying the amalgamation of race, culture, education and athletics. His work has been published in the Journal of Urban Education and The Journal of Race, Gender and Class.

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