Louise Pettibone Smith (1887–1981) was an American biblical scholar, professor, translator, author and social activist.
[1] She received a Thayer Fellowship, an $800 scholarship given by Harvard University and open to men and women,[2] to the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, living there in 1913–1914.
[1] Smith's work on the Bible and Calvin shaped her social perspective, which led to her criticism of US government policies used to silence Cold War dissidents.
[1] In this role she travelled the country speaking about the "promise of a just and free society", which she later documented in the book Torch of Liberty: Twenty-Five Years in the Life of the Foreign Born in the USA (1959).
[4] In 1962, a testimonial dinner was held in New York in her honor, at which she was called "Lover of truth and Crusader for Justice.