Faculty Profile

Robert Smith

Title
Assistant Professor
Department
History
College
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, Baylor University, 2010. 
Major: Religion, Politics and Society
MA, Luther Seminary, 2003. 
Major: Islamic Studies
MDiv, Luther Seminary, 2003. 
Major: Christian Ministry
BA, Oklahoma State University, 1998. 
Major: Philosophy





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
HIST 6900.702, Special Problems, Spring 2024 
ENGL 6810.001, Topics in Critical Theory, Spring 2024 


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    HIST 4217.001, Jew, Greek, and Roman : Backgrounds of Early Christianity, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 2620.005, United States History Since 1865, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 5900.710, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2023 
                    

                    HIST 5110.002, Studies in United States History, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4217.001, Jew, Greek, and Roman : Backgrounds of Early Christianity, Fall 2022 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 4263.001, Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American History, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 2620.005, United States History Since 1865, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Book
Smith, R. O. (2014). Comprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparison. 
Smith, R. O. (2013). More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism.  New York: Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/book/25941
Smith, R. O. (2013). More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism. 225.  New York:: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/more-desired-than-our-owne-salvation-9780199993246?cc=us&lang=en&#
Smith, R. O. (2006). Christians and a Land Called Holy: How We Can Foster Peace, Justice and Hope. 
Book Chapter
Smith, R. O. (2023). An Urgent Call to Challenge Christian Zionism. Blessed are the Peacemakers: Theology, Compassion, and Action for a Global Mission. 351-364.  Helsinki: Luther-Agricola Society. 
Smith, R. O. (2023). Pandemic Politics: Critical Social Theory and Societal Chaplaincy. Theology and Ethics for the Public Church: Mission in the 21st Century World. 171-185.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 
Smith, R. O. (2022). Christian Zionism, Settler Coloniality, and Supersessionist Anxiety. Global Transformation of Christian Zionism, ed. Yoshihiro Yakushige.  Kyoto: Kyoto University Press. 
Smith, R. O. (2021). The Ecumenical Deal, the Judeo-Christian Tradition, and the Christian Colonization of Judaism. 
Smith, R. O. (2019). State(s) of Exception: Christian Zionism, Replacement Theology, and the Right of Conquest. 
Editor of a Special Issue of Dialog Journal
Rowe, T. T., Smith, R. O., Woods, J., Crockett, C., Grau, M., Pranger, J., Weaks, D.  Theological Responses to Energy and Extraction. Other. (Summer 2023), . 
Journal Article
Smith, R. O., Martinez, A. Y. (2023). Critical Race Religious Literacy: Exposing the Taproot of Contemporary Evangelical Attacks on CRT. Journal of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. 1(1), 83-104. https://scholar.stjohns.edu/jcres/vol1/iss1/7/
Smith, R. O. (2023). Christian Responsibility and Anti-Jewish Theology: Revisiting “Reclaiming Bonhoeffer After Auschwitz. Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies. (6), .  Rochester, NY: Camden House. 
Smith, R. O. (2023). Acknowledge the Land: An Indigenous Historical Reflection on Extractive Theology. Dialog. 62(2), 148-155. 
Smith, R. O., Younan, M. A. (2023). Critical Approaches to Christian Zionism. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church. 22(4), 324-332. 
Smith, R. O. (2021). “The Ecumenical Deal, the Judeo-Christian Tradition, and the Christian Colonization of Judaism,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2019). “Bonhoeffer Moment(s)?: Learning to See ‘From Below’ in Indian Country,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2019). “Disintegrating the Hyphen: The ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition’ and the Christian Colonization of Judaism,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2019). “State(s) of Exception: Christian Zionism, Replacement Theology, and the Right of Conquest,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2018). “Sanctifying the Settler-Colonial Gaze: Nineteenth-Century American Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2018). “Today, Know This,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2016). “Civilization, Savagism, and the Presence of Burning Children,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2014). “Prophecy, the Pope, and the Turk: Luther’s Pastoral Apocalyptic,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2014). “Reading Palestine Realities with American Indian Eyes,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2012). “Anglo-American Christian Zionism: Implications for Palestinian Christians,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2012). “Interpreting the Bible, Interpreting the World: Anglo-American Christian Zionism and Palestinian Christian Concerns,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2012). “Replacement Theology, Christian Zionism, and the Anglo-American Protestant Tradition of Judeo-Centric Prophecy Interpretation,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2011). “American Expansionism, Theologies, and the Israel/Palestine Question,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2009). “Toward a Lutheran Response to Christian Zionism,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2007). “Implications of Christian Zionism for Interfaith Relations,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2007). “Jewish-Christian Difficulties in Challenging Christian Zionism,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2007). “Luther, the Turks and Islam,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2006). “Bonhoeffer and Musical Metaphor,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2005). “Palestinian Nationalism(s): Religious and Secular,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2005). “Response to the Respondents,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2005). “Secular and Religious: ELCJHL Contributions to Palestinian Nationalism,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2004). “Between Restoration & Liberation: Theopolitical Contributions & Responses to U.S. Foreign Policy in Israel/Palestine,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2004). “Reclaiming Bonhoeffer After Auschwitz,”. 
Smith, R. O. (2004). “Response to Dahill on Bonhoeffer,”. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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