Gregory D. Smithers

[1] In 2019 he was awarded a British Academy Global Professorship for his work on Indigenous environmental history in the United States and Australia.

In a 2022 interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Smithers said that he is "attracted to topics most other historians have historically not touched, or handled pretty shabbily.

[4] In the book, Smithers also explores the historical memory of slave breeding in the African American community, and its impact on the sexual objectification of black people in contemporary culture.

[6][7][8] However, it received some criticism for conflating slave breeding with other types of abuse and the separation of enslaved families.

[16] In addition to his writings, Smithers also produced a digital history in 2022 entitled "Cherokee Riverkeepers."