Professor

320B McMicken Hall
513-556-2173
hilda.smith@uc.edu

Professional Summary

After receiving her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1975, Professor Smith taught at the University of Maryland, College Park, and served as a humanities administrator before coming to UC in 1987. Professor Smith’s basic interests lie in the gendered analysis of political theory and intellectual history, and in the political, philosophical, and scientific writings of early modern women. Reflecting these interests, her scholarship has addressed a broad range of topics, including the gendered nature of citizenship, the aging process, the evolution of the field of women’s history, and feminist critiques of epistemology. Her work is especially concerned with the ways in which reason has come to be associated with men rather than women, both in traditional and in feminist scholarship.

Education

PhD, University of Chicago, 1975.

Courses Taught

European Civilization, 1500-1800.

European Civilization, 1800-present.

Women in European Society, 1600-1850.

Women in European Society, 1850-present.

Tudor England, 1485-1603.

Stuart England, 1603-1714.