Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961)

Awarded the Prize “for her prominent role in founding the Women’s International League for Peace Freedom her important devotion as a leader of the international women’s movement for peace.”

American sociologist economist. Balch was born on January 8, 1867, Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1889, then she studied at Harvard the University of Chicago worked in Berlin for a year. In 1896 she joined the faculty of Wellesley College, rising to the rank of Professor of Economics Sociology in 1913. She played a prominent role in founding the Women’s International League for Peace Freedom. Balch died on January 9, 1961, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Major Works:
Our Slavic Felow-Citizens (1910); Women at The Hague (with Jane Addams Alice Hamilton, 1915); Approaches to the Great Settlement (1919)