Howard, George Elliott (1849–1928)

Abstract

George Elliot Howard (October 1, 1849–June 9, 1928) was an important sociologist and legal and social historian. He graduated from the State Normal School at Peru in 1870. He earned his bachelor's degree from the new University of Nebraska in 1876 and then traveled to Munich and Paris to study Roman law and history until 1878. Howard received his PhD from the University of Nebraska in 1894. He taught at Stanford University, Cornell University, and the University of Chicago. Howard became the head of the newly established Department of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Nebraska in 1906. In 1917, he became the seventh president of the American Sociological Society. Howard received an honorary vice presidency from the Institut international de sociologie of Paris for his work in the fields of human welfare, advocacy, social history, and social feminism. Howard retired from teaching in 1924 and died in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1928.