"[8] In The Business History Review, Regina Lee Blaszczyk emphasized Smulyan's "savvy borrowing of research methods and theories from several fields" to develop this investigation.
[9] Smulyan has also served as chair of the board of directors of New Urban Arts, a youth mentoring program in Rhode Island.
[10] In July 2020, Routledge published Smulyan's Doing Public Humanities, an edited collection of essays, which "explores the cultural landscape from disruptive events to websites, from tours to exhibits, from after school arts programs to archives", providing a broad perspective of the work of public humanities.
[12] Like Smulyan's earlier work, Doing Public Humanities is interdisciplinary and combines a practitioner's focus on case studies with the scholar's more abstract and theoretical approach.
[2] Other contributors present a public humanities practice that encourages social justice and explores the intersectionalities of race, class, gender, and sexualities.