Emily Greene Balch: The Long Road to Internationalism

Kristen Gwinn, PhD ’08, delivers this first scholarly biography of Emily Greene Balch, a well-known American academic and cofounder of Boston's first settlement house. Balch was an important Progressive Era reformer and advocate for world peace who served as a professor of economics and sociology at Wellesley College for 20 years, until her opposition to World War I resulted in the board of trustees refusing to renew her contract. Undeterred, Balch continued to emphasize the important role of international institutions in preventing and reconciling conflicts.