Bonnie G. Smith is an American feminist historian currently a part of the Board of Governors Distinguished History Professor at
Rutgers University, New Brunswick.[1][2]
Her primary focus began with the histories of the French Empire in the post
Industrial age. Since then, Smith's research interests concern issues of Cultural Hybridity in the Modern West, Gendering Disability, Women's and
Gender History in Global Perspective,[5] Europe in the Twentieth Century World, and Women in World History. Bonnie Smith is also married to Donald R. Kelley, having three kids. Kelley is an American historian with a focus on European intellectual history.[6][7]
Smith was also the script writer for the Crash Course European History YouTube series, hosted by
John Green.
Selected works
The Making of the West Concise, co-author with
Lynn Hunt, Thomas Martin, and Barbara Rosenwein, 4th edition (Bedford St. Martin’s 2013)
Women’s Studies: The Basics (Routledge, 2013)
The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice, Chinese edition, 2012
The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, co-author with Lynn Hunt, Thomas Martin, and
Barbara Rosenwein, 4th edition (Bedford St. Martin’s 2012)
Sources of Crossroads and Cultures with
Marc Van de Mieroop, Richard von Glahn, and
Kris Lane (Bedford St. Martins, 2012)
Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World’s Peoples, co-author with
Marc Van de Mieroop, Richard von Glahn, and
Kris Lane (Bedford St. Martins, 2012)
Women and Gender in Postwar Europe, co-editor with
Joanna Regulska [
pl] (Routledge 2012)
Decentered Identities: The Case of the Romantics, History, and Theory, May 2011
^American Women Historians, 1700s—1990s: A Biographical Dictionary / J. R. Scanlon, S. Cosner. — Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1996. — pp. 207—209. — ISBN 978-0-313-29664-2.
^American Women Historians, 1700s—1990s: A Biographical Dictionary / J. R. Scanlon, S. Cosner. — Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1996. — pp. 207—209. — ISBN 978-0-313-29664-2.
^"Bonnies G. Smith". Princeton University Press. Retrieved 2023-07-02. On Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the 19th Century: "Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the middle class and confined them to a largely reproductive experience."
^American Women Historians, 1700s—1990s: A Biographical Dictionary / J. R. Scanlon, S. Cosner. — Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1996. — pp. 207—209. — ISBN 978-0-313-29664-2.