Dr. Kylie Smith

Dr. Kylie Smith was until recently Associate Professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and Associate Faculty in the Emory College Department of History at Emory University in Atlanta. Her first book, “Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing”, won the Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing and the American Journal of Nursing’s Book of the Year Award in the area of History and Public Policy. Her new book “Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South” was published in January 2026 by UNC Press. Dr. Smith is now Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia.