Karen Smith is actually American, but taught at the South Wales Baptist College from 1991-2018. She was brought up in Georgia (U.S.A.) and graduated from Mercer University in Macon and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. She then went to Oxford University where she did research on eighteenth century Baptist life under the supervision of B. R. White (DPhil 1987). She gave the 1994 Hughey Memorial Lectures at IBTS.
Selected Publications
‘Beyond Public and Private Spheres: Another Look at Women in Baptist History and Historiography’, Baptist Quarterly 34.4 (1991), 79-87
‘The Role of Women in Early Baptist Missions’, Review and Expositor 89.1 (Winter, 1992), 35-48
‘The Liberty Not to Be a Christian: Robert Robinson (1735-1790) of Cambridge and Freedom of Conscience’ in Distinctively Baptist essays on Baptist history: a festschrift in honor of Walter. B. Shurden (Mercer, 1995)
‘The Covenant Life of some Eighteenth-Century Calvinistic Baptists in Hampshire and Wiltshire’ in Pilgrim Pathways: essays in Baptist history in honour of B. R. White (Mercer, 1999)
‘Forgotten Sisters: The Contributions of Some Notable but Un-noted British Baptist Women’ in Recycling the Past or Researching History?: Studies in Baptist Historiography and Myths (Paternoster, 2005)
‘British Women and the Baptist World Alliance: Honoured Partners and Fellow Workers?’, Baptist Quarterly 41.1 (January 2005), 25-46
‘The Liberty not to be a Christian: Robert Robinson (1735-1790) of Cambridge and Freedom of Conscience’ in Marc A. Jolley & John D. Pierce (eds.), Distinctive Baptists: Essays on Baptist History. A Festchrift in Honor of Walter B. Shurden (Mercer, 2005)
‘Preparation as a Discipline of Devotion in Eighteenth-Century England: A Lost Facet of Baptist Identity?’ in Baptist Identities: International Studies from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Paternoster, 2006)
‘Women in Cultural Captivity: British Women and the Zenana Mission’ Baptist History and Heritage 41.1 (Winter 2006), 30-41
Christian Spirituality (SCM, 2008)
‘James Fanch (1704-67): The Spiritual Counsel of an Eighteenth Century Baptist Pastor’ in John H. Y. Briggs (ed.), Pulpit and People (Paternoster, 2009)
‘What About the Widows?: An Appeal to Nineteenth-Century Baptist Women’ in John H. Y. Briggs and Anthony R. Cross (eds.), Baptists and the World: Renewing the Vision (CBHHS Vol. 8.: Regent’ s Park College, 2011).
‘Nonconformists, the Home and Family Life’ in Robert Pope (ed.), The T & T Clark Companion to Nonconformity (T & T Clark, 2013)
‘Charles Frederic Aked (1864-1941): “A Fighting Parson” for Social Reform’, Perspectives in Religious Studies 42.2 (Summer 2015)
‘Female Education’ among Baptists in the Eighteenth Century: Martha (Smith) Trinder (1736–1790) and Henrietta Neale (1752–1802)’, Baptist Quarterly 48.4 (2017)
‘Baptists at Home’ in Stephen Copson and Peter Morden (eds.), Challenge and Change: English Baptist Life in the Eighteenth Century (Baptist Historical Society, 2017)
‘Baptists’ in Andrew Thompson (ed.), The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions Vol II: The Long Eighteenth Century(Oxford, 2018)
‘”Holy Living and Holy Dying”: The Response of some British Baptist Women to “Come Out” of the World’ in Come Out from Among Them, and Be Ye Separate, Saith the Lord: Separationism and the Believers’ Church Tradition edited by Evan L. Colford (Pickwick, 2019)
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