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Emily Balch was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 8th January, 1867. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1889, Balch continued her studies in Paris and Berlin.
On the arrival back in the United States she attended the University of Chicago before beginning her teaching career at Wellesley College. During this period she wrote Outline of Economics (1899) and A Study of Conditions of City Life (1903).
Working closely with Jane Addams and other social reformers at Hull House, Balch studied the life of immigrants in Chicago. Her research resulted in the book, Our Slavic Fellow Citizens (1910).
A committed pacifist, Balch opposed USA involvement in the First World War and was a member of the Woman's Peace Party (WPP) and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). As a result of her anti-war activities, Balch was dismissed as professor of political economy at Wellesley College.
Balch, who was secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (1918-22 and 1934-35), won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946. In her later life Balch wrote several important books including Refugees as Assets (1939), One Europe (1947) and Toward Human Unity, or Beyond Nationalism (1952).
Emily Balch died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 9th January, 1961.
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