Greg Smith has dedicated most of his professional career to teaching undergraduate community college students while conducting archaeological research all over the world. He teaches courses in his specialization of archaeology but also in the related fields of cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and geography. His proudest accomplishment while at Northwest College has been being able to take students out of the classroom and off to archaeologically-themed destinations including Peru, Greece, Mexico, Guatemala, British Isles, American Southwest, Egypt, and most recently Cambodia. While doing research, his methodological area of expertise is mapping and he has had the honor of being able to work at archaeological sites in Mexico, Ecuador, Mongolia, United States, and Pakistan. Over the last several decades, Greg has maintained a broad interest in understanding how ancient societies were organized and how they changed over time.