Michael Smith

Michael E. Smith is a Professor of Archaeology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University. Smith’s research foci include excavation of houses at Aztec sites, urban analysis of ancient Teotihuacan, and the transdisciplinary and comparative study of premodern cities in relation to contemporary urbanization. His book, At Home with the Aztecs (2016, Routledge) won the Best Popular Book award, Society for American Archaeology. His latest book is Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding (2023, Cambridge University Press).