title article_title birth_date employer education name occupation
professor emeritus anthony d. smith
 1939 london school of economics oxford university -lrb- ba -rrb- anthony d. smith ethnographer sociologist
anthony d. smith

anthony d. smith -lrb- born 1939 -rrb- is a british historical sociologist who is professor emeritus of nationalism and ethnicity at the london school of economics .
he is considered one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of nationalism studies .
smith took his first degree in classics and philosophy at oxford university and his master 's degree and doctorate in sociology at the london school of economics .
