# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-e-smith
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:16:58.045Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-e-smith"
name: "Dorothy E. Smith"
slug: "dorothy-e-smith"
description: "Dorothy Edith Smith was a British-born Canadian ethnographer, feminist studies scholar, sociologist, and writer with research interests in a variety of disciplines. These include women's studies, feminist theory, psychology, and educational studies. Smith was also involved in certain subfields of sociology, such as the sociology of knowledge, family studies, and methodology. She founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography."
tagline: "Canadian anthropologist"
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gender: "female"
country:
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birthDate: "1926-07-06"
deathDate: "2022-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump