Tiffany Watt Smith
Historian of Emotions, Queen Mary University of London
I am an author and a historian of emotions. I write about the cultural and historical forces that shape our most intimate worlds. I have won multiple awards for my research and writing, including grants from Wellcome Trust, the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. I am the 2018 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner. I am a reader emerita in the School of Arts at Queen Mary University of London, where I taught for 15 years and directed its Centre for the History of Emotions. In 2024, I was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
EXPs by Tiffany Watt Smith
It is sometimes counterintuitive to think that emotions might have a history, because surely everyone across the world and everyone across time has always felt fear and anger and sorrow and joy in the same kind of way.
Female friendship is a powerful, evolving force that has long been overlooked, yet reveals deep emotional, cultural and social significance across history.
Trust is absolutely essential for our ability to cooperate with other people, to get anything done, to move around in the world at all.