Emily Greene Balch | |
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| Born | January 8, 1867 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | January 9, 1961 (aged 94) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, economist, professor |
| Known for | Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 |
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist. Balch combined an academic career at Wellesley College with a long-standing interest in social issues such as poverty, child labor, and immigration, as well as settlement work to uplift poor immigrants and reduce juvenile delinquency.
She moved into the peace movement at the start of World War I in 1914, and began collaborating with Jane Addams of Chicago. She became a central leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) based in Switzerland,[1] for which she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.[2]
- ^ Confortini, Catia C. (2021), Rietzler, Katharina; Owens, Patricia (eds.), "Race, Gender, Empire, and War in the International Thought of Emily Greene Balch", Women's International Thought: A New History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 244–265, ISBN 978-1-108-49469-4, retrieved March 6, 2021
- ^ Judith Freeman Clark (1987). Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century. Prentice Hall. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-13-022658-7.