Brief Biography

Brief Biography

Dr. Smith earned his PhD in History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was also awarded a Masters degree in History from UCLA, and he obtained a second Masters in Theology. Smith was a Johannes Quasten Scholar in Patristics at The Catholic University of America and he holds a Distance Learning Administrator’s Certificate from Texas A&M University and the Center for Distance Learning Research. He has published over 120, mostly peer-reviewed publications, in history, technology and education, and computing. Dr. Smith has been President of the American Association for History and Computing. As a tenured teacher Smith has also taught Economics and American Government at Cardinal O'Hara, World History at Northeast Catholic and Cardinal Dougherty, and the Liberal Arts at Hahnemann University. Smith is a certified College Board instructor in AP Government, this past summer he attended the College Board sponsored AP Economics Summer Institute class. Dr. Smith is a widower, a full-time single parent to the best daughter ever born who is a Junior at another local high school; and, he is a voice actor: www.voicecoaches.com.

Email: gmsmith@shanahan.org