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art, literature, and monuments" (ADM REC Series 100, Box 106/1, Folder 3, 16 September 1957). Smith was also part of the move to offer Byzantine Studies at ASCSA, with the Gennadeion Fellowship in Post-Classical Greece first awarded in 1963. Smith was an advocate for wide student access to the Summer Session and was a founder of the Ben Hodge Hill Scholarship for students. Towards the end of Smith's involvement in the ASCSA, she worked to widen access to membership of the School to non-American and Canadian students.
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from 1945 to 1963. Smith was, in particular, highly influential in the organisation of the Summer Session from the 1950s onwards and noted that the School's function was "to afford the opportunity to the uninitiated to get some acquaintance with Greece and really to learn something of its history,
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on her death in 1985 for student scholarships for the Summer Session. The following year, the directorship of the Summer Session was named the Gertrude Smith Professorship and is held by a visiting academic (or academics) to direct the Summer Session of the School. Previous holders include:
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Smith was President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) in 1933-34 and 1940-41 and President of the American Philological Association (now the Society for Classical Studies) in 1958.
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Smith's work focused on Greek law, on which she published extensively. In collaboration with Robert Bonner, Smith wrote the two volume work
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began in the 1940s. In 1948 Smith was a participant in the Summer Session and spent six weeks travelling around
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before obtaining her undergraduate (BA 1916) and graduate (MA 1917, PhD 1921) degrees at the
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Gertrude Smith Professorship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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Smith was the Chairman of the Committee on Admissions and Fellowships of the
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History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1939-1980,
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Smith was a founding member of the national Classics honor society
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Gagarin, Michael (1996). "Gertrude Elizabeth Smith (1894-1985)".
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Gagarin, M. (1996). "Gertrude Elizabeth Smith (1894-1985)"
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and is currently the only woman to have been president of
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and was instrumental in making it a national society.
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The Administration of Justice from Homer to Aristotle
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The Administration of Justice from Homer to Aristotle
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The Administration of Justice from Homer to Aristotle
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For the American arts patron and philanthropist, see
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Gertrude Robinson Smith
Peoria, Illinois
Alma mater
Bradley University
Chicago University
Thesis
Classical archaeology
Chicago University
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
University of Chicago
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Classical Association of the Middle West and South
CAMWS
American Philological Association
Peoria, Illinois
Bradley University
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
Classical Philology
Eta Sigma Phi
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Greece
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
University of Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
Loyola University Chicago
Vanderbilt University
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
John H. Oakley
College of William and Mary in Virginia

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