Sherwood Smith

Senior Executive Director of Inclusive Excellence and Faculty Engagement

Lecturer of Human Development and Family Science

Sherwood.Smith@uvm.edu
(802) 656-8739
Sherwood Smith
Sherwood.Smith@uvm.edu
+18026568739

461 Main St
203 Allen House
Burlington, VT 05405
United States
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Alma mater(s)
  • Ed.D. in Education, Washington State University Adult and Community Education, Cognate: Counseling Psychology / Multicultural Issues, Ball State University
  • M.A. in Adult and Community Education, Washington State University
  • B.S., Zoology, Washington State University
Affiliated Department(s)

BIO

In the Office of the Vice Provost of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Dr. Sherwood Smith serves as the Senior Executive Director of Inclusive Excellence and Faculty Engagement. 

Dr. Smith joined UVM as faculty member in 2000. His current appointment is in the Department of Counseling and Human Development and Family Science. He has taught undergraduate and graduate classes on multicultural education, development of prejudice, cross cultural issues in human development, and white identity development.

Beyond UVM, he was a faculty member with the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC) in Portland, Oregon from 2000- 2018. From 2017 to 2018, he ws a faculty member with the Winter Institute for Intercultural Communication (WIIC) at the UMASS Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. During that time, he taught workshops on the intersections of domestic and international issues of ethnicity, race, gender in the international context and coordinates the Fellows Program.

Dr. Smith also served as a Peace Corps Fisheries Volunteer in Tanzania as Director for the School for International Training’s Program in Kenya, and as Assistant Director for Residence Life at Penn State University Campus in State College, Pennsylvania. He has visited 20 countries and was a guest speaker at University of Inner Mongolia and Jufu Normal University in China (2012).

Courses

HDF 2410 Interrogating Whiteness


 

Awards and Achievements

  • Teacher’s College Alumni of the Year, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (2021)
  • John D. O’Bryant African American Vision Award, Northeastern University (2021)
  • Outstanding Ally Award, Women’s Center, University of Vermont (UVM) (2014)
  • Scholar Practitioner Award, Higher Education and Student Affairs Program, UVM (2013)
  • Outstanding Faculty Award, ALANA Student Center, UVM (2009)
  • Leadership and Service Award, ALANA Coalition, UVM (2009)
  • Peace Corps Franklin H. William Award (2001)
  • Ally Achievement Award, LGBTQA Center, UVM (2001)
  • Dan and Carole Burack President’s Distinguished Lecture Grant, UVM (Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2010 and Fall 2012)

Area(s) of expertise

  • Multicultural Education
  • Development of Prejudice
  • Cross Cultural / Intercultural Development
  • White Identity Development
  • Intersections of domestic and international issues of ethnicity, race and gender

Bio

In the Office of the Vice Provost of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Dr. Sherwood Smith serves as the Senior Executive Director of Inclusive Excellence and Faculty Engagement. 

Dr. Smith joined UVM as faculty member in 2000. His current appointment is in the Department of Counseling and Human Development and Family Science. He has taught undergraduate and graduate classes on multicultural education, development of prejudice, cross cultural issues in human development, and white identity development.

Beyond UVM, he was a faculty member with the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC) in Portland, Oregon from 2000- 2018. From 2017 to 2018, he ws a faculty member with the Winter Institute for Intercultural Communication (WIIC) at the UMASS Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. During that time, he taught workshops on the intersections of domestic and international issues of ethnicity, race, gender in the international context and coordinates the Fellows Program.

Dr. Smith also served as a Peace Corps Fisheries Volunteer in Tanzania as Director for the School for International Training’s Program in Kenya, and as Assistant Director for Residence Life at Penn State University Campus in State College, Pennsylvania. He has visited 20 countries and was a guest speaker at University of Inner Mongolia and Jufu Normal University in China (2012).

Courses

HDF 2410 Interrogating Whiteness


 

Awards and Achievements

  • Teacher’s College Alumni of the Year, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (2021)
  • John D. O’Bryant African American Vision Award, Northeastern University (2021)
  • Outstanding Ally Award, Women’s Center, University of Vermont (UVM) (2014)
  • Scholar Practitioner Award, Higher Education and Student Affairs Program, UVM (2013)
  • Outstanding Faculty Award, ALANA Student Center, UVM (2009)
  • Leadership and Service Award, ALANA Coalition, UVM (2009)
  • Peace Corps Franklin H. William Award (2001)
  • Ally Achievement Award, LGBTQA Center, UVM (2001)
  • Dan and Carole Burack President’s Distinguished Lecture Grant, UVM (Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2010 and Fall 2012)

Areas of Expertise

  • Multicultural Education
  • Development of Prejudice
  • Cross Cultural / Intercultural Development
  • White Identity Development
  • Intersections of domestic and international issues of ethnicity, race and gender