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Julia M. H. Smith | |
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| Born | Julia Mary Howard Smith 29 May 1956 |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Title | Chichele Professor of Medieval History |
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| Education | South Hampstead High School |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Thesis | Carolingian Brittany (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. M. Wallace-Hadrill |
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| Institutions | University of Sheffield University of St Andrews University of Manchester Trinity College,Connecticut Newnham College,Cambridge University of Glasgow All Souls College,Oxford |
| Notable works | Europe after Rome:a New Cultural History 500–1000 |
Julia Mary Howard Smith, FSA Scot , FRSE , FRHistS (born 29 May 1956) is an English medievalist who was the Chichele Professor of Medieval History at All Souls College,Oxford from 2016 to 2025. [1] She was formerly Edwards Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. [2]
Smith was born on 29 May 1956 in Cambridge,Cambridgeshire,England. [3] She was educated at South Hampstead High School,an all-girls Private school in London. [3] She studied at Newnham College,Cambridge,from 1975 to 1978,followed by postgraduate study at Corpus Christi College,Oxford,from 1978 to 1981. [1] Her doctoral supervisor was J. M. Wallace-Hadrill,one of Smith's predecessors in the Chichele chair. [4]
Smith lectured at the University of Sheffield,the University of St Andrews,and the University of Manchester in the 1980s. In 1986,she was appointed an assistant professor at Trinity College,Hartford,Connecticut. From 1988-89 Smith held the Kathleen Hughes Memorial Research Fellowship at Newnham College,Cambridge,named in honour of Smith's undergraduate director of studies. [4] In 1995,she returned to the University of St Andrews as Reader in Medieval History,where she served as University Lead for Equal Opportunities and taught the university's first courses in women's history. [5] In 2005,she was appointed Edwards Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. [6]
In 2016,Smith was appointed Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and elected a fellow of All Souls College,Oxford. She gave her inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor on 31 January 2019:it was titled "Thinking with Things:Reframing Relics in the Early Middle Ages". [7] Smith retired from the chair in 2025 and was succeeded by Alice Rio. [8]
She has held a range of international research fellowships. From 1999 to 2000 she was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study and in 2001 and 2013 she held a fellowship at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies,Princeton. [1]
In 2005,Smith married fellow historian Hamish Scott. [3]
In 2010 she delivered the Raleigh Lecture on the subject of relics in the Medieval West. [9] In 2011 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [10] Smith delivered the Birbkbeck lecture series at Trinity College,Cambridge in 2018,on the subject "The Religious Life of Things in Early Christianity". [11]
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