Elizabeth Rauschenbush, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Rauschenbush (Brandeis), Ph.D.

Elizabeth Brandeis Rauschenbush, Jewish Women's Archive

Born on April 25, 1896 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
BA, from Radcliffe College, 1918; University of Wisconsin, MA, 1924; Ph.D., 1928.
Married Paul August Rauschenbush, July 2, 1925; one son, Walter Brandeis Rauschenbush

Raushenbush-Brandeis taught economics for 42 years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, retiring in 1966. Her husband, Paul, who died in 1980, was secretary of the Wisconsin Unemployment Compensation Division. Her father served on the US Supreme Court from 1916-1939, and died in 1941.

Assistant Secretary, then Secretary of the Minimum Wage Board, Washington D.C., 1919-1923. Successively assistant instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1924- . Member, Wisconsin Migrant Commission, 1953- ; Chairman, Governor's Commission on Migratory Labor; member, National Consumers' League and League of Women Voters; member, State Board, Wisconsin League of Women Voters, 1950-1954, 1956-1958.

Died on April 30, 1984 in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States

The Sunday Star publication, from Washington DC, included the following news in its issue of January 14, 1917: “Word has been received from Boston that two young Washington women have won grades at Radcliffe College. Miss Elizabeth Brandeis, daughter of a Justice of the Supreme Court, is one of the fine juniors to rank with the ‘very high academic distinction,’ and Miss Eva B. Dykes is one of the seniors who has ranked with ‘marked excellence.’”

Timeline:

1896 Born Boston, Massachusetts, second dau. of Louis D. Brandeis and Alice Goldmark Brandeis
1918 B.A., Radcliffe College
1919-1923 Assistant secretary and secretary, D.C. Minimum Wage Board
1923-1928 Graduate student, Economics Department, University of Wisconsin
1924 Faculty member, Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers
1924 Began 42-year career teaching part-time in the University of Wisconsin Economics Department
1925 Married Paul August Raushenbush
1928 Completed Ph.D.
1928 Son Walter is born
1945 Served as president of AFT Local 223
1966 Retired from the University of Wisconsin
1984 Died in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin on April 30

Paul August Raushenbush and Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush Papers, 1918-1980

Washington Post profiles UW faculty who helped create unemployment insurance