About
Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was an American economist and pacifist. A member of Bryn Mawr College's first graduating class, she pursued graduate studies in economics and sociology in Paris, Berlin, Harvard, and Chicago. A professor at Wellesley College, she published scholarly works, including a landmark study of Slavic immigrants. During World War I, she co-founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Dismissed from Wellesley for her anti-war activism, she became an editor at The Nation and later the WILPF's first international secretary-treasurer. A convert to Quakerism, she shared the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize with John Raleigh Mott.
* 1867-01-08 — † 1961-01-09
Major works
- Public Assistance of the Poor in France (1893)study
- Outline of Economics (1899)textbook
- Our Slavic Fellow Citizens (1910)sociological study
- Occupied Haiti (1927)report
Key milestones
- 1889Graduated from Bryn Mawr College's first class.
- 1915Co-founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
- 1946Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with John Raleigh Mott.
Themes
Peace and pacifismSocial economicsImmigrationWomen's rightsSocial justice
Sources: nobelprize.org · britannica.com · blogs.loc.gov