Aaron X. Smith1

Dr. Aaron X. Smith currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. He is the author of The Murder of Octavius Catto (featured in the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, 2015). Smith has also published multiple entries in the Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage (2015) and a chapter on James Baldwin titled “Boundless Baldwin,” recently published in Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies.