Dorothy E. Smith

British-born Canadian ethnographer

Dorothy Edith Smith CM (née Place; 6 July 1926 – 3 June 2022) was a British-born Canadian ethnographer, feminist studies scholar, sociologist, and writer with research interests in a variety of disciplines, including women's studies, feminist theory, psychology, and educational studies, as well as in certain subfields of sociology, such as the sociology of knowledge, family studies, and methodology.

Smith founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography.