Participant Info
- First Name
- Malissa
- Last Name
- Smith
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY
- girlboxing.wordpress@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- No Affiliation
- Website URL
- https://malissa-smith.com/
- Keywords
- Women's Boxing, Gender, Women's Labor, Popular Culture, Women, Sports History, Boxing History, Women's Boxing History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- malissa@girlboxing.org
- PhD
- MA
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Malissa Smith is an author and women’s boxing historian, Smith has written two books: A History of Women’s Boxing (Rowman and Littlefield: 2014) and The Promise Of Women’s Boxing: A Momentous New Era for the Sweet Science (Rowman and Littlefield: 2024) with a foreword by two-time Olympic Gold Medal boxer, Claressa Shields. She received her Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies from SUNY Empire State University in 2012.
Smith’s duties in boxing include being a member of The Ring’s Women’s Boxing Panel, her work with the monthly WBC women’s boxing committee, and her role as both a member of the selection panel and an elector for the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
As a public speaker, Smith makes frequent appearances on podcasts, radio, and television programs espousing her support for women’s empowerment and women’s sports. She has also been a producer and host of her own podcast, WAAR Room along with her partners, Chris Baldwin and Eddie Goldman.
- Recent Publications
A History of Women’s Boxing (Rowman and Littlefield: 2014)
The Promise Of Women’s Boxing: A Momentous New Era for the Sweet Science (Rowman and Littlefield: 2024)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Twitter @girlboxingnow, Instagram @girlboxingnow
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Labor, Sports, Women
