Gary S. Smith, Ph.D.
Working Group Coordinator, Faith and Politics
Fellow, Faith and the Presidency
Dr. Gary Scott Smith chairs the History Department and coordinates the Humanities Core at Grove City College where he has taught since 1978. He earned a B.A. degree in psychology at Grove City College, a Master of Divinity degree at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary near Boston, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American history at Johns Hopkins University. In addition, he participated in two National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars and was awarded an NEH summer seminar grant. In 2000 he received Grove City College’s first Professor of the Year award, and the next year he was named Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He has been selected to "Who’s Who in Religion in America," "Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers," and "Who’s Who in America."
Smith has published numerous articles in scholarly and popular journals including: the Journal of Presbyterian, the History Westminster Theological Journal, Fides et Historia, Presbyterian Survey, Christian Scholar’s Review, The Reformed Journal, Anglican and Episcopal History, and Theology Today. He has written dozens of entries for the American National Biography, The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Great Events from History, The Dictionary of the Presbyterian and Reformed Tradition in America, A Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, and several other references works. Smith has also penned chapters for numerous edited volumes on religion and society. In addition, he has authored or edited six books: The Seeds of Secularization: Calvinism, Culture and Pluralism in America, 1870-1915 (1985); Building a Christian Worldview. Volume 1: God, Man and Knowledge (1986); Volume 2: The Universe, Society and Ethics (1988); God and Politics. Four Views on the Reformation of Civil Government (1989); The Search for Social Salvation: Social Christianity and America, 1880-1925 (2000); and Windows on the World: Perspectives on Philosophy, Society, and Ethics (2004). In mid 2006 Oxford University press will publish his Faith and the Presidency: Religion, Politics, and Public Policy from George Washington to George W. Bush. Smith has presented papers at conferences throughout the country. His lecture on George Washington’s faith aired on C-SPAN in 2004, and his interview on his forthcoming book on Truths That Transform aired on over 700 radio stations in 2005.
Smith, a native of western Pennsylvania, lives in Grove City with his wife Jane, who chairs the library faculty at Slippery Rock University. He has two adult sons and two grandchildren.
Gary S. Smith, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Department of History
Grove City College | Box 3039 | Grove City, PA 16127
Tel: 724.458.2016 | Email: gssmith@gcc.edu
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