Emily James Smith Putnam (15 April 1865 – 1944) was an American classical scholar, author and educator.
She was teacher of Greek at the Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, in 1891–93.
She was a fellow in Greek at the University of Chicago in 1893–94, and dean of Barnard College in 1894–1900.
She was a trustee of Barnard College in 1900–05, and president of the League for Political Education (co-founded by her sister-in-law Mary Putnam Jacobi) In 1901–04.
She was vice-president and manager of the Women's University Club, New York City, in 1907–11.