Hilda_L._Smith
Hilda L. Smith
American historian
Hilda L. Smith (1941-2023) was an American historian.
Smith was an undergraduate at Missouri State University, trained as a high school teacher, and subsequently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1975.[1] Her dissertation was titled Feminism in Seventeenth-century England.[2]
Smith was a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park where she was a humanities administrator.[1] In 1987, she joined the University of Cincinnati.[1] She specialized in the gender analysis of political theory and intellectual history and the "political, philosophical, and scientific writings of early modern women.[1]