Jane Addams, born on this day in 1860 in Cedarville ... children in a prosperous family — was an author, philosopher, sociologist and public administrator, and an agitator for the causes ...

Robert Hunter—a sociologist, author ... it would be difficult to follow in the initial footsteps of Jane Addams, who funded her early work at Hull-House out of her own pocket.

Hull House, started in 1889 by the sociologist Jane Addams, began as a settlement house that worked to “Americanize” Chicago’s immigrants and help the city’s poorest citizens improve their lives. Ms.

What would Jane Addams, the famed Progressive Era activist, sociologist, philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner, do about the glaring social gaps in the greatest infectious disease crisis the nation ...

Fans of community activist and Nobel Prize winner Jane Addams admire her legacy of advocating for the underprivileged people in Chicago and beyond. But what they’ve never done is associate ...

A notable early example was Jane Addams and her work at Hull House at the turn of the ... Indeed, Addams came to see Hull House as a "sociology laboratory." CU Engage builds on this tradition and ...

In celebration of Rockford University’s most famous alumna, Jane Addams — and her September ... in 1983 with a degree in anthropology and sociology, is a self-professed Rockford history ...