Dorothy Smith: Canadian Social Anthropologist

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Dorothy Smith is a Canadian Social Anthropologist. She was born in North Allerton, Yorkshire England in 1926. Before attending the London School of Economics (LSE) for her undergraduate, Dorothy Smith had various jobs such as secretarial work.
In 1955, Dorothy Smith graduated LSE with a B.Sc. in sociology and a major in Anthropology. She then continued her graduate study at University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) where she obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1963. Shortly after her graduation, Smith taught as a lecturer at UC Berkeley.
In 1967, Smith moved to Vancouver to teach at University of British Columbia (UBC). At UBC, she established a Women’s Studies Program which directed her to further investigate the inequity in society.
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