Julia Mary Howard Smith, FSA Scot, FRSE, FRHistS (born 29 May 1956) is an American medievalist who is the Chichele Professor of Medieval History at All Souls College, Oxford.
In 1995, she joined the University of St Andrews as Reader in Medieval History.
In 2005, she was appointed Edwards Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow.
She gave her inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor on 31 January 2019: it was tiled "Thinking with Things: Reframing Relics in the Early Middle Ages".
[7] Smith delivered the Birbkbeck lecture series at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2018, on the subject "The Religious Life of Things in Early Christianity".