Tiffany Watt Smith
Cultural historian and author
Tiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian who writes about the history of emotions. She wrote The Book of Human Emotions and Schadenfreude.
1 summary 18 min of listening
About Tiffany Watt Smith
Tiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian whose work centers on the history of emotions. She has written The Book of Human Emotions and Schadenfreude, and she has given a widely viewed TED talk on the history of emotions. Earlier in her career, she worked as a theater director. She holds an emerita readership in cultural history at Queen Mary University of London, where she ran the Centre for the History of Emotions. She was named a BBC New Generation Thinker in 2014, won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2019, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2024. She has also received awards from the Wellcome Trust and the British Academy. Her book Bad Friend is available in the BookBits catalog.