SMITH, Suzanne E. 1964-

PERSONAL: Born August 19, 1964, in Detroit, MI; daughter of Gerald (an assembly line worker) and Caralee (Narden) Smith. Education: University of California—Los Angeles, B.A., 1986; Carnegie-Mellon University, M.A., 1988; Yale University, Ph.D. (American studies), 1996.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444; fax: 703-993-1251. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, associate professor of history, 1995—. Contributor to public history projects, including "I'll Make Me a World: African-American Arts in the Twentieth Century"; contributor to television film Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring, Public Broadcast System.

MEMBER: American Studies Association, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians.

AWARDS, HONORS: Gleason Music Book Awards, third prize, 2000, for Dancing in the Street.

WRITINGS:

Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1999.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on black entrepreneurship.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Quarterly, September, 2001, Steve Waksman, review of Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, p. 518.

American Studies, summer, 2001, Sherrie Tucker, review of Dancing in the Street, p. 171.

Billboard, March 18, 2000, Timothy White, review of Dancing in the Street, p. 3.

Black Issues Book Review, July, 2000, Tracy Roberts, review of Dancing in the Street, p. 37.

Booklist, December 15, 1999, Mike Tribby, review of Dancing in the Street, p. 750.

Journal of American History, June, 2001, Michael Bertrand, review of Dancing in the Street, p. 299.

Library Journal, December, 1999, David P. Szatmary, review of Dancing in the Street, p. 138.

Michigan Historical Review, fall, 2000, Kenneth J. Bindas, review of Dancing in the Street, p. 182.

Times Higher Education Supplement, October 20, 2000, John White, review of Dancing in the Street, p. 32.