Hilda L. Smith

Hilda L. Smith (1941-2023) was an American historian.

Smith was an undergraduate at Missouri State University, trained as a high school teacher, and subsequently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1975. Her dissertation was titled Feminism in Seventeenth-century England.

Smith was a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park where she was a humanities administrator. In 1987, she joined the University of Cincinnati. She specialized in the gender analysis of political theory and intellectual history and the "political, philosophical, and scientific writings of early modern women.