# Judith Smart

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{{Short description|Australian social historian and feminist}}
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[University of Melbourne](/source/University_of_Melbourne)}}

'''Judith Smart''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 20 October 1950) is an Australian social historian and feminist.

== Early life and education ==
Born in [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne), Victoria on 20 October 1950,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Smart, Judith|url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE5310b.htm|access-date=2022-01-10|website=The Australian Women's Register|language=en-gb}}</ref> Smart completed her secondary education at [Mac.Robertson Girls' High School](/source/Mac.Robertson_Girls'_High_School). She graduated from [Monash University](/source/Monash_University) with a BA (1971) and DipEd (1972).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Sharon M.|title=Smart, Judith|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0726b.htm|access-date=2022-01-10|website=The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|language=en-gb}}</ref> Returning to Monash she completed a PhD with the title "War and the concept of a new social order: Melbourne 1914–1915" in 1992.<ref>{{Citation|author1=Smart|first=Judith|title=War and the concept of a new social order: Melbourne 1914–1915|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21602071|publication-date=1992|publisher=Monash University|access-date=11 January 2022}}</ref>

== Career ==
On graduation, Smart spent 1973 teaching at Sandringham Technical School.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Sharon M.|title=Smart, Judith|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0726b.htm|access-date=2022-01-10|website=The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|language=en-gb}}</ref> The following year she joined Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now [RMIT University](/source/RMIT_University)), over the years rising to associate professor in 2003. Smart retired in 2005 but continued her association with RMIT University initially as adjunct professor and later honorary associate professor.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2020-01-26|title=Dr Judith Beryl Smart|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2005792|access-date=2022-01-10|website=It's an Honour}}</ref> From 2005 to 2015 she was a principal fellow in the Australian Centre at the [University of Melbourne](/source/University_of_Melbourne).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2020-01-26|title=Dr Judith Beryl Smart|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2005792|access-date=2022-01-10|website=It's an Honour}}</ref>

Smart served as editor of the ''[Victorian Historical Journal](/source/Victorian_Historical_Journal)'' from 2004 to 2009 and co-editor from 2017.<ref name=":1" /> She was a member of the council of the [Royal Historical Society of Victoria](/source/Royal_Historical_Society_of_Victoria) from 2007 to 2017 and was elected a fellow in 2012.<ref name=":1" /> Smart has served on the executive committee of the History Council of Victoria since 2009, including as deputy chair from 2010 to 2019.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Dr Judith Smart|url=https://www.historycouncilvic.org.au/judith_smart|access-date=2022-01-11|website=History Council of Victoria}}</ref>

With [Shurlee Swain](/source/Shurlee_Swain), Smart is co-editor of the ''Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Introduction|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/about.html|access-date=2022-01-10|website=The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|language=en-gb}}</ref> She has also been involved on the committee of Her Place Women's Museum.<ref name=":2" />

Smart was appointed a [Member of the Order of Australia](/source/Order_of_Australia) in the [2020 Australia Day Honours](/source/2020_Australia_Day_Honours) for " significant service to education, to social research, and to women".<ref name=":1" />

For the [Australian Dictionary of Biography](/source/Australian_Dictionary_of_Biography) she was a member of the Victorian Working Party from 1979 and advised on women's entries from 1989.<ref name=":1" /> She has contributed a number of biographies, including women's activists [Sarah Jane Baines](/source/Sarah_Jane_Baines),<ref>{{Citation|last=Smart|first=Judith|title=Baines, Sarah Jane (Jennie) (1866–1951)|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/baines-sarah-jane-jennie-5100/text8519|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|place=Canberra|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|language=en|access-date=2022-01-11}}</ref> [Elizabeth Couchman](/source/Elizabeth_Couchman)<ref>{{Citation|last=Smart|first=Judith|title=Couchman, Dame Elizabeth May (1876–1982)|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/couchman-dame-elizabeth-may-12359|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|place=Canberra|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|language=en|access-date=2022-01-11}}</ref> and [Elizabeth Britomarte James](/source/Elizabeth_Britomarte_James).<ref>{{Citation|last=Smart|first=Judith|title=James, Elizabeth Britomarte (1867–1943)|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/james-elizabeth-britomarte-13003/text23505|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|place=Canberra|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|language=en|access-date=2022-01-11}}</ref>

== Works ==

* ''The Forgotten Fifties: Aspects of Australian society and culture in the 1950s'', co-edited with John Murphy (1997)
*''Consumer Australia: Historical Perspectives'', co-edited with Robert Crawford and Kim Humphery (2011)
* ''Founders, Firsts and Feminists: Women Leaders in Twentieth-century Australia'', co-edited with Fiona Davis and Nell Musgrove (2011)
*''Respectable Radicals: A history of the National Council of Women Australia, 1896–2006'', co-authored with [Marian Quartly](/source/Marian_Quartly)
*''Remembering Melbourne 1850–1960,'' co-authored with [Richard Broome](/source/Richard_Broome), Richard Barnden, Don Garden, Don Gibb and Elisabeth Jackson (2016)
*''From the Margins to the Mainstream: The Domestic Violence Services Movement in Victoria, Australia, 1974–2016'', co-authored with Jacqui Theobald and Suellen Murray (2017)

* ''Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake'', co-edited with [Joy Damousi](/source/Joy_Damousi) (2019)

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