Steven Smith

Smith is a retired Research Professor at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina. He has over 33 years’ experience in historical archaeology with a focus on the American Revolution, especially the battlefields of Francis Marion. He has published several books, including: Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars: Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare, (co-author, Clarence, Geier, University of Alabama Press, (2019), Francis Marion and the Snow’s Island Community: Myth, History, and Archaeology (United Writers Press, 2021), and Leading Like the Swamp Fox: The Leadership Lessons of Francis Marion ( co-author, Kevin Dougherty, Casemate Press, 2022), The Battles of Fort Watson and Fort Motte (Yardley, Pa: Westholme Press, 2024), and South Carolina in The Revolutionary War in South Carolina: Profiles in Leadership also with Kevin Dougherty, Casemate, 2025).