Christopher B. R. Smith

Christopher B R Smith is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research concerning substance use has been published in numerous international, peer-reviewed journals. Christopher's first sole-authored book manuscript Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users' Guide to Urban Space was recently published in Routledge's Advances in Sociology series. Following a Postdoctoral Fellowship conducted under the supervision of internationally-renowned Medical Anthropologist Dr. Philippe Bourgois at the...See more

Christopher B R Smith is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research concerning substance use has been published in numerous international, peer-reviewed journals. Christopher's first sole-authored book manuscript Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users' Guide to Urban Space was recently published in Routledge's Advances in Sociology series. Following a Postdoctoral Fellowship conducted under the supervision of internationally-renowned Medical Anthropologist Dr. Philippe Bourgois at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), Christopher has worked in Toronto, Melbourne, and St. John's, Newfoundland, where he is presently a faculty member in the School of Social Work at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). Since relocating to Newfoundland, Christopher has additionally taken on several community-based involvements, including: (1) establishing an interdisciplinary research forum regarding Harm Reduction and Critical Drug Studies through the Newfoundland Centre for Applied Health Research (NLCAHR); (2) co-organizing a conference entitled User-Driven Interventions in the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm: Everything you wanted to know about harm reduction but were afraid to ask for the local Addiction Treatment Services Association (ATSA), and; (3) serving as the St. John's Site Coordinator for the Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU), an initiative of the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse (CCSA). See less