Christopher B R SmithChristopher B R Smith is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research concerning substance use has been published in numerous international, peer-reviewed journals. Christopher's first sole-authored book manuscript Addiction, Modernity, and the City:A Users' Guide to Urban Space was recently published in Routledge's Advances in Sociology series. Following a Postdoctoral Fellowship conducted under the supervision of internationally-renowned Medical Anthropologist Dr. Philippe Bourgois at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), Christopher has worked in Toronto, Melbourne, and St. John's, Newfoundland, where he is presently a faculty member in the School of Social Work at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). Since relocating to Newfoundland, Christopher has additionally taken on several community-based involvements, including: (1) establishing an interdisciplinary research forum regarding Harm Reduction and Critical Drug Studies through the Newfoundland Centre for Applied Health Research (NLCAHR); (2) co-organizing a conference entitled User-Driven Interventions in the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm: Everything you wanted to know about harm reduction but were afraid to ask for the local Addiction Treatment Services Association (ATSA), and; (3) serving as the St. John's Site Coordinator for the Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU), an initiative of the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse (CCSA). Read More Read Less