Dr. Smallwood has taught a number of courses in American, Colonial American, African-American, Southern, Native-American, and World History. These Courses include: History 2010 U. S. survey, History 4053/6053 Africans in the Americas, History 4881/6881 African-American History, History 7883/8883 Studies in African American History, History 4941/6941 History of the American Indian, History 7880/8880-African-American Historiography, History 7881/8881 Readings in African-American History to 1865. He helped redesign History 4881/6881 and created a 3000 level African-American History survey and three new 4000/6000 level courses for juniors and seniors in African American History. These included History 3881- African-American History from Slavery to Present, and History 7883/8883- Sugar, Tobacco, Rice, Indigo and Cotton: Studies in African-American History from 1502 to 1820.
Other courses include History 8012 Independent Readings and History 4879/6879-African-American History to 1820.
PowerPoint presentations were designed for the above classes. Dr. Smallwood was also appointed to the education curriculum committee of the Historic Hope Foundation of Windsor, North Carolina where he has given several lectures. He works with Grading Assistants, Teaching Assistants and at least one Research Assistant each semester.
During his tenure at the University of Memphis, he helped develop the justification for the field in African-American History and to design four core 7000/8000 level courses for the new Ph.D. field in African-American History. He has given presentations for the UNESCO Education Project for Middle and High School Student teachers hosted by the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute on how to use maps in the teaching of African-American and Native-American History and was appointed to serve as an A.P. US History Reader for the Educational Testing Service. Dr. Smallwood is also an invited lecturer for the Center for International Studies at the University of Delaware. The Center’s purpose is to promote understanding between the United States and Middle Eastern Countries. The program was sponsored by the United States Department of State as part of the State Department’s Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative.
He has also served as the advisor to the Graduate Association for African American History (GAAAH) since 2004 where he has helped the organization draft a constitution and apply for funding from (SAC) Student Activities Committee and other sources to plan and host the annual African-American History Conference. In this capacity, he assisted GAAAH, the Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences and the University in planning and organizing a program to honor the “Memphis State Eight” in 2006. This University-wide effort was successful in moving the university forward by examining its past. Dr. Smallwood continues to work with a number of honors undergraduate, M.A. and Ph. D. students studying in his research area.