Robert O. Smith is an assistant professor of History at the University of North Texas with a research focus on the interactions of race, religion, and Indigeneity. Smith is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). He is the author of More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism (Oxford, 2013). He also has three book projects under contract, co-researched and -written with UNT rhetoric and writing professor Aja Y. Martinez, on the history of Critical Race Theory.