Emily James Smith Putnam

Emily James Smith Putnam was an American classical scholar, author and educator. She was the first dean of Barnard College.

Biography

She was the daughter of Justice James C. Smith. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889 and studied at Girton College, Cambridge University, in 1889–90.
She was teacher of [Classical Classical Greek language|Greek language|Greek] at the Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, in 1891–93. She was a fellow in Greek at the University of Chicago in 1893–94, and dean of Barnard College in 1894–1900. She was a trustee of Barnard College in 1900–05, and president of the League for Political Education in 1901–04. She was vice-president and manager of the Women's University Club, New York City, in 1907–11.
She married George Haven Putnam in 1899. Following the death of her husband, she retired from Barnard in 1930 and lived in Spain. She moved to Jamaica after the Spanish Civil War broke out. She died on September 7, 1944, in Kingston.

Works

Selections from Lucian The Lady

''Greek Religion''