Kelly Eitzen Smith (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1999) is adjunct professor of sociology and assistant director of the Center for Applied Sociology at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation, under the direction of David A. Snow, was an ethnography of homeless women. While a graduate student she was part of a large research project where she interviewed the homeless in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Tucson. She has done extensive volunteer work in homeless shelters in Tucson. Her sociological interests are gender, social inequality, and social movements.
