Elbert B. Smith

May 1, 1921 – April 30, 2013

Smith taught at Youngstown State University, Iowa State University, and the University of Wisconsin. He taught as a Fulbright Professor on numerous occasions. He also taught United States history in Japan, at Ochanomizu University and the University of Tokyo from 1954 to 1955. In 1976, he taught a pioneering, uncensored American history course at Moscow State University, returning to the Soviet Union to teach at Moscow in 1982 and at Leningrad State University in 1991. He also taught as an exchange professor at the University of Beijing in 1983 and 1988. Smith later served as president of the