Educated in law at Cornell University, Ellwood did postgraduate studies in Europe before receiving his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1899. After a short period as the secretary of a charity organization in Nebraska while he taught at the University there, Ellwood was appointed professor of sociology at the University of Missouri where he spent the next thirty years. During his tenure, he traveled throughout Europe and studied/taught in many countries including Germany, France, Italy and England. Ellwood was active in numerous professional organizations which included the International Congress of Arts & Sciences, where he was chairman of the Social Psychology Section, in 1904, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, President of the International Congress of Sociology and President of the American Sociological Society, to name a few. In 1910, he published Sociology and Modern Social Problems, which became a standard text in high schools and colleges throughout America. In 1930, Ellwood moved to Duke University where he became the chairman of the Department of Sociology until his retirement in 1944. His other works include Sociology in Its Psychological Aspects (1912), The Social Problem (1915), Introduction to Social Psychology (1917), The Reconstruction of Religion (1922), Christianity and the Social Sciences (1923), Psychology of Human Society(1925), Cultural Evolution (1925), Man's Social Destiny in the Light of Science (1929), Methods in Sociology (1933), A History of Social Philosophy (1938) and The World's Need of Christ (1940). |
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