Scott Smith is an anthropologist specializing in understanding the complex ways that people shape and are shaped by their landscapes. His research experience includes projects in Belize, Ecuador, England, and the United States. Since 2004 he has investigated the long-term history of human-environment relationships in the altiplano region of the Bolivian Andes mountains. He is the author of Landscape and Politics in the Ancient Andes (2016, University of New Mexico Press) and Generative Landscapes (2012, Boundary End Archaeological Research Center) as well as a dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and over 40 public lectures at venues in the United States and abroad. His coauthored work with Maribel PĂ©rez has been featured in USA Today, the International Business Times, LiveScience.com, and El Diario. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside and a B.A. in Anthropology from Drew University. Smith is Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.