Kylie Smith, PhD

Kylie Smith is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Healthcare History and Policy in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and Associate Faculty in the History Department, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her PhD in the history of psychiatry in Australia, and is the author of the award winning book “Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing” published by Rutgers University Press in 2020. Her new book entitled “Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South” will be published by UNC Press in December 2025 and has been supported by the G13 Grant from the US National Library of Medicine.