Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President

Faculty & Program Development
Dr. Dwayne Smith, Senior Vice Provost

Biography

Dr. M. Dwayne Smith is Professor and Senior Vice Provost at the University of South Florida. He received his B.S. and M.A. degrees from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. from Duke University. Before coming to USF in 2000 as Chair of the Department of Criminology, Dr. Smith was a faculty member and chair at Tulane University (Department of Sociology, 1980-1994) and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work, 1994-2000; Department of Criminal Justice, 1998-2000). He was named Vice Provost for Faculty & Program Development at USF in July 2005 and appointed as the Senior Vice Provost in January 2008. Specializing in the study of criminology and deviant behavior, Dr. Smith has published numerous articles and book chapters on crime and criminal justice topics. His current research concentrates on analyses of jury decisions in death penalty cases in North Carolina, the dynamics of homicide offending and victimization among specific populations within the United States, and developing social-structural profiles of cities that demonstrate either high or low rates of violent crime. He is the founding editor of Homicide Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal and has co-edited (with Margaret A. Zahn) two books, Homicide: A Sourcebook of Social Research and Studying and Preventing Homicide: Issues and Challenges.

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E-mail:dsmith@acad.usf.edu