Matthew J. Smith is Professor in History and Head of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. His areas of research include Haitian politics, society, and migration. He is the author of the books Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica After Emancipation (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), and Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) which was a winner of the Gordon K and Sybil Lewis prize for best book in Caribbean History from the Caribbean Studies Association. He has also published several articles and book chapters on various aspects of Haitian history and politics. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for graduate studies at the University of Florida; an Andrew Mellon Visiting Professorship at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University; and a Dubois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Professor Smith teaches undergraduate courses on Haitian history and U.S. history. Professor Matthew Smith was awarded the 2015 Haiti Illumination Project Book Prize by the Haitian Studies Association for his book Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation.
Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica After Emancipation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
"Footprints on the Sea: Finding Haiti in Caribbean Historiography," Small Axe no. 43 (March 2014).
"Haiti from the Outside In: A Review of Recent Literature," Radical History Review 115 (2013).
"H.G. and Haiti: An Analysis of Herbert G. DeLisser's 'Land of Revolutions,'" The Journal of Caribbean History
44, no. 2 (2010).
Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
"'From Dessalines to Duvalier 'Revisited: A Quarter-Century Retrospective," Journal of Haitian Studies 13, no. 1 (Spring 2007). "An Island Among Islands: Haiti's Strange Relationship with the Caribbean Community," Social and Economic Studies 54, no. 3 (September 2005).