Kingsbury, Susan (1870–1949)
Kingsbury, Susan (1870–1949)
American social investigator and educator. Born Susan Myra Kingsbury, Oct 18, 1870, in San Pablo, CA; died Nov 28, 1949, in Bryn Mawr, PA; dau. of Willard Belmont Kingsbury (physician) and Helen Shuler (De Lamater) Kingsbury (college dean); Stanford University, MA in history, 1899; Columbia University, PhD in American colonial history, 1905.
While teaching economics at Simmons College in Boston, also served as director of research department of Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston (from 1907); was professor of social economy and director of Carola Woerishoffer Graduate Department of Social Economy and Social Research (later Graduate School of Social Work) at Bryn Mawr (1915–36); helped found American Association of Schools of Social Work (later Council on Social Work Education, 1919); toured China and India (1921–22) and Soviet Union (1929–30, 1932, 1936) to observe conditions for women and children. Wrote Licensed Workers in Industrial Homework in Massachusetts (1915), Newspapers and the News (1937) and Factory, Family and Woman in the Soviet Union (with Mildred Fairchild, 1935).