Faculty

Hilda L. Smith
Professor
Fields: Early Modern Britain,
History of European Women

Phone: 556-2173
Email: smithh@email.uc.edu
Office:  McMicken 340A

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.

Selected Courses:
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

Selected Publications:
“Women Intellectuals and Intellectual History: Their Paradigmatic Separation,” Women’s History Review, vol. 16, #3 (2007), 353-368.

All Men and Both Sexes: Gender, Politics and the False Universal in England, 1640-1720 (Penn State University Press, 2002).

Editor, Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1998).