Bonnie G. Smith is the current Board of Governors Distinguished History Professor at

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, New Brunswick. Smith attended

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, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1962. Later, she earned a Ph.D. from the

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in 1976. She has since held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, the

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, the

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, and the

. Smith designed a project, co-sponsored by the

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, to integrate the study of women into survey courses. She has been on the board of editors of ''

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'', a consulting editor to ''

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'', and on the board of associate editors for ''

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''. 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, Europe in the Twentieth Century World, and Women in World History. Bonnie Smith was also the script writer for the Crash Course European History YouTube series, hosted by

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Selected works

*''The Making of the West Concise'', co-author with

Lynn Hunt Lynn Avery Hunt (born November 16, 1945) is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her area of expertise is the French Revolution, but she is also well known for her work in European cul ...

, 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

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, Richard von Glahn, and

Kris Lane Kris Eugene Lane (born April 7, 1967) is a Canadian–American Fulbright scholar, researcher, professor, and author. His areas of academic teaching and research focus on colonial Latin American history. He has written and edited several books ...

(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 (Routledge 2012) *''Decentered Identities: The Case of the Romantics'', History, and Theory, May 2011
Women in World History: An Overview
, for '' Clio. Femmes, genre, histoire'', twenty-fifth anniversary edition, January 2011 *''Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present'', 2nd edition (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)

References

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