Dorothy V Smith

Biographic Data

ID3612557
NAMEDorothy V Smith
GIVEN NAMESDorothy V
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH D V
AFFILIATIONSHistory Professor Emerita, Dillard University New Orleans, LA USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Marriage Matters

    Dorothy V Smith, Dorothy Smith et al.ARTICLEAfrican and Asian Studies2026

  • A Place To Live In Peace, written by Evelyn L. Wilson

    Charmaine Williams, Augustine Adu Frimpong et al.ARTICLEAfrican and Asian Studies2024

  • Navigating Womanhood in Contemporary Botswana, written by Stephanie S. Starling

    Dorothy V Smith, Dorothy SmithARTICLEAfrican and Asian Studies2023

  • The Problem of Trust Without Intimacy

    Open AccessDorothy V Smith, Dorothy SmithARTICLEScience & Education2022

    Trust arises from confidence in a person or confidence in the practices of an institution. Theorists argue that institutional trust depends, to varying extents on intrapersonal trust, which is trust between people who know each other. Science rests its claim to expert knowledge on the practices of knowledge production engaged in by its institutions. Most people cannot check these practices themselves and effectively must trust the experts who exp…

  • Casablanca Story, written by Koli Jean Bofane and translated by Bill Johnston

    Dorothy V Smith, Dorothy SmithARTICLEAfrican and Asian Studies2022

  • The African Scholar and Other Essays, written by Irele, Abiola F

    Damien Ejigiri, Dorothy V Smith et al.ARTICLEAfrican and Asian Studies2019

  • The Humanities In Africa, Toyin Falola

    Dorothy V Smith, Dorothy SmithARTICLEAfrica Today2016

    Reviewed by: The Humanities in Africa by Toyin Falola Dorothy V. Smith Falola, Toyin. 2016. THE HUMANITIES IN AFRICA. Austin, Texas: Pan-African University Press. 328 pp. Toyin Falola’s The Humanities in Africa mainly provides an enlightened discussion of issues relevant to the humanities: the main reference is to the academy’s methodologies and epistemologies. The book consists of nine essays, “written at different times in the last five years” …

  • Neo‐liberal individualism and a new essentialism

    Dorothy V Smith, Dorothy SmithARTICLEJournal of Educational…2011

    This article explores a significant shift in the science curriculum in Victoria, Australia, in the mid‐1990s by using the idea of essentialism to compare two science curriculum documents that span the shift. The accounts given in these documents of desirable approaches to teaching science, science itself and the proper scope of curriculum, are compared to show that the document written in the mid‐1990s is open to a more essentialist reading than …

  • A History of Modern Sudan , Robert O. Collins

    Dorothy V Smith, Dorothy SmithARTICLEAfrica Today2009

    Reviewed by: A History of Modern Sudan Dorothy V. Smith Collins, Robert O. 2008. A History of Modern Sudan. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. xxii; 338 pp. A History of Modern Sudan is a 338-page book authored by Robert O. Collins, professor emeritus of history at University of California, Santa Barbara. In it, Collins has carefully drawn on his vast research experiences, which span not less than half a century. It is divided into ten …

  • The World of Patience Gromes

    Dorothy V Smith, Dorothy Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1989