We are delighted to share with our readers unpublished papers and presentations by advisory board member Rima Lunin Schultz. She recently donated her research files on Hull-House to the Project.
Rima Lunin Schultz, historian with a Ph.D. from Boston University, has written articles and books on Jane Addams, Chicago women in Catholic and Protestant faith traditions and the culture of urban elites. Her research challenges earlier interpretations of Jane Addams and Progressive Era reform. She edited and wrote the website: Urban Experience in Chicago, Hull House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003-2018.
Schultz is the co-editor with Adele Hast of Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary (Indiana University, 2001), which was named Best Reference Book in 2001 by the American Library Association. She wrote the Introduction to the University of Illinois Press reprint of the path-breaking sociological study, Hull-House Maps and Papers (2007, paperback 2024). She is co-author of Eleanor Smith’s Hull-House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams’s Chicago, Haymarket 2020. With Kathryn Kish Sklar, Schultz authored “Jane Addams’ Wife” for the Women and Social Movement in the U.S. website, Alexander Press, October 2021. She is co-author with Ann Keating on the forthcoming book, In The Shadow of Jane Addams: Hull House and Planning in a Working Class Neighborhood, University of Illinois Press, April 2027.
She served as historian and assistant director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, the University of Illinois at Chicago. Schultz is an advisor to the Jane Addams Papers Project at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and is the past president of the Chicago Area Women’s History Council, now the Chicago Women’s History Center.
Posts by Rima Lunin Schultz
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Women’s Activism Before the Second Wave: The Case of Florence Scala’s Leadership in the Working Class Neighborhood of Hull-House
By Rima Lunin Schultz In 1963, as Ann Keating recounted in her prior blog, Florence Scala had already been engaged as a social activist for several decades in the neighborhood made famous by Jane Addams. She had participated as a leader in the grassroots organization of…
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Democratic Cosmopolitanism and the Hull-House Women’s Club; Race, Class and Ethnicity
The post is drawn from a presentation by Rima Lunin Schultz at the Urban History Association Sixth Biennial Conference, October 25-28, 2012. “Very early in its history the [Hull-House Women’s ] club,” Jane Addams tells us, “formed what was called ‘A Social Extension Committee.’ Once a…
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Reading History in Twenty Years at Hull-House: Jane Addams’s Narrative Choices
This post was written by Dr. Rima Lunin Schultz and given at the Centennial Symposium on Twenty Years at Hull-House, at the Chicago History Museum, November 13, 2010. Most people, if they have read anything by Jane Addams, have read Twenty Years. It has become the…
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After Jane Addams: Life at Hull-House from New Deal to Great Society, 1930-1963
This post is by Rima Lunin Schultz and was first given at the Urban History Seminar, at the Chicago History Museum, on November 8, 2007 The three decades immediately following the death of its legendary co-founder Jane Addams in 1935 are generally viewed as a period of chaos…
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Art For the People, Art By the People: The Visual Arts at Hull-House, 1893-1945
This post was written by Rima Lunin Schultz and presented at the Teacher’s Workshop at the Terra Museum of Art, on August 3, 2004 Today I want to tell you something about the history of Hull-House and the role of the visual arts in its programs…