Pamela H. Smith is an American historian of science specializing in attitudes to nature in early modern Europe (1350-1700), with particular attention to craft knowledge and the role of craftspeople in the Scientific Revolution.
She is the Seth Low Professor of History,[1] founding director of the Making and Knowing Project,[2] founding director of the Center for Science and Society,[3] and chair of the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience,[4] all at Columbia University.
Smith is serving a two-year term (2016-2018) as president of the Renaissance Society of America.
[5] Smith received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, in 1979 (First Class Honors), and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University, in 1991.
[6] Smith was the Margaret and Edwin F. Hahn Professor in the Social Sciences, and professor of history at Pomona College from 1990-2005 and the director of European Studies at Claremont Graduate University from 1996–2003.