Gregory D. Smithers, “Water Stories: Deep Histories of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Climate Change, & Cherokee Resilience,” Journal of the British Academy 9, no. 6 (September 2021): 27-59
Gregory D. Smithers, “Predatory Colonialism: Indigenous Women and the Violence of Sexual Objectification in the United States,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 30, no 2 (Summer 2021): 253-78

Gregory D. Smithers, “Putting Ethnohistory to Work: Jack Forbes and the Remaking of American Historical Consciousness,” Ethnohistory 68, no. 1 (January 2021): 29-51

Gregory D. Smithers, "Native Ecologies: Environmental Lessons from Indigenous Histories," The History Teacher 52, no. 2 (February 2019): 265-90

Gregory D. Smithers, “'Our Hands and Hearts are Joined Together': Friendship, Colonialism, and the Cherokee People in Early America," Journal of Social History 50, no. 4 (2017): 609-629

Gregory D. Smithers, “'This is the Nation’s Heart-String': Formal Education and the Cherokee Diaspora during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” Wicazo Sa Review 30, no. 2 (2015): 28-55

Gregory D. Smithers, “A Cherokee Epic: Kermit Hunter’s Unto These Hills and the Mythologizing of Cherokee History,” Native South 8 (summer 2015): 1-30

Gregory D. Smithers, "Beyond the "Ecological Indian": Environmental Politics and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Modern North America," Environmental History 20, no. 1 (2015): 83-111

Gregory D. Smithers, “Cherokee ‘Two-Spirits’: Gender, Ritual, and Spirituality in the Native South, 1770s-1840s,” Early American Studies 12, no. 3 ( Fall 2014): 626-51

Gregory D. Smithers, “The ‘Soul’ of Unity: The Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians, 1913-1915,” American Indian Quarterly (special issue: The Sesquicentennial of the Society of American Indians, 2013)

Gregory D. Smithers, “The Dark Side of Antiracism: “Half-Breeds” & the Anthropology of Aleš Hrdlicka,” Transnational Subjects 1, no. 1 (October 2011): 63-85

Gregory D. Smithers, “American Abolitionism & Slave Breeding Discourse: A Reevaluation,” Slavery & Abolition 33, no 3 (2012): 551-70

Gregory D. Smithers, “Challenging a Pan-African Identity: The Autobiographical Writings of Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, & Caryl Phillips,” Journal of American Studies 45, no. 3 (August 2011): 483-502

Gregory D. Smithers, “The ‘Pursuits of the Civilized Man’: Race and the Meaning of Civilization in the United States and Australia, 1790s-1850s,” Journal of World History 20, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 245-72

Gregory D. Smithers, “Barack Obama & Race in the United States: A History of the Future,”Australasian Journal of American Studies 28, no. 1 (July 2009): 1-18

Gregory D. Smithers, “Black Gentleman as Good as White”: Comparing the Origins and Development of African-American and Australian Aboriginal Political Protest,” Journal of African American History 93, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 315-36
Book Chapters
“Settler Sexualities: Reproducing Nations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand” in The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism, eds. Dagmar Herzog and Chelsea Schields. New York: Routledge, 2021
“Reimagining Home: Indigenous Diasporas and the Search for Belonging in Nineteenth-Century America” in Routledge Companion to Indigenous Global History, eds. Ann McGrath and Lynette Russell. New York: Routledge, 2021
“Rituals of Consumption: Cannibalism and Native American Oral Traditions in Southeastern North America” in Cannibalism in the Early Modern Atlantic,ed. Rachel Herrmann. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2019, 19-35
“’All the Science and Learning’: Black Intellectual History in the United States,” in Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America: A Historical Perspective, eds.Brian D. Behnken, Gregory D. Smithers, and Simon Wendt. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2017, 11-34
“‘What is an Indian?’ The Enduring Question of American Indian Identity,” in Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas, eds. Gregory D. Smithers & Brooke N. Newman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014, 1-27
“Frontier Justice: Lynching in the United States & Australia,” in Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective, eds. Manfred Berg & Simon Wendt. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011, 101-18
“The ‘Right Kind of White People’: Reproducing Whiteness in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1930s,” in Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation, eds. Manfred Berg & Simon Wendt. New York, Berghahn Books, 2011, 303-28
“Rethinking Genocide in the North America,” in The Oxford Handbooks of Genocide Studies, eds. Donald Bloxham & A. Dirk Moses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 322-41
“Reimagining Home: Indigenous Diasporas and the Search for Belonging in Nineteenth-Century America” in Routledge Companion to Indigenous Global History, eds. Ann McGrath and Lynette Russell. New York: Routledge, 2021
“Rituals of Consumption: Cannibalism and Native American Oral Traditions in Southeastern North America” in Cannibalism in the Early Modern Atlantic,ed. Rachel Herrmann. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2019, 19-35
“’All the Science and Learning’: Black Intellectual History in the United States,” in Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America: A Historical Perspective, eds.Brian D. Behnken, Gregory D. Smithers, and Simon Wendt. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2017, 11-34
“‘What is an Indian?’ The Enduring Question of American Indian Identity,” in Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas, eds. Gregory D. Smithers & Brooke N. Newman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014, 1-27
“Frontier Justice: Lynching in the United States & Australia,” in Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective, eds. Manfred Berg & Simon Wendt. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011, 101-18
“The ‘Right Kind of White People’: Reproducing Whiteness in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1930s,” in Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation, eds. Manfred Berg & Simon Wendt. New York, Berghahn Books, 2011, 303-28
“Rethinking Genocide in the North America,” in The Oxford Handbooks of Genocide Studies, eds. Donald Bloxham & A. Dirk Moses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 322-41