Emily Greene Balch, A.B. 1889  Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961),
peace advocate, social reformer, and economist, won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1946. She received her A.B. in Greek and Latin in
1889, and was the first recipient of Bryn Mawr's European
Fellowship.  With practical experience in settlement house work
and the academic background of research on public assistance in
France, Emily Balch taught economics at Wellesley, and was an
early supporter of strikers and an outspoken critic of racial
discrimination and class exploitation. Her major work, Our
Slavic Fellow Citizens, countered the nativist assumptions of
her society. At the time of WWI, she became active in
international pacifist affairs and was linked, in newspaper
accounts, with the socialist-Bolshevist wing of pacifist
activities.  In 1919, the Wellesley Trustees voted not to renew
her appointment. She continued in peace work and was involved
with the founding of the Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom. A tireless writer, traveler,