Pronouns: she/her

Emily Patton Smith formerly worked as an archaeologist and as Collections Coordinator of the Randolph College Natural History Collections / founder of RC Natural History Collections Project (2011-2020). She assisted with the design of Museum & Heritage Studies major at Randolph College, where she taught courses in Natural History Collections and Collections Management, and curated five exhibitions at Randolph College exploring interconnections between natural science and the humanities: “Aves: Birds in Art” (2014); “Curious Natures: Women and Natural History” (with Laura Mc Manus) and “Natural History, Archaeology, and Sherlock” (2017); “Painting ‘Perfect Nature’: Sydney Parkinson, Scientific Illustration, and the Age of Discovery” (2018); and “Epochs of Nature: Climate, Geology, Species, Culture” (2018). She plays violin and guitar, restores antique stringed instruments, and composes music in blues, classical, and traditional idioms. Emily writes poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction, as well as a few scholarly articles.