Editing Alice Hamilton (section)

===Assistant professor, Harvard Medical School===
[[File:Dr. Alice Hamilton.jpg|alt=Alice Hamilton during her first year at Harvard, 1919|thumb|Alice Hamilton during her first year at Harvard, 1919]]
In January 1919, Hamilton accepted a position as assistant professor in a newly formed Department of Industrial Medicine (and after 1925 the School of Public Health) at [[Harvard Medical School]], making her the first woman appointed to the [[Harvard University]] faculty in any field.<ref name="CHFBio"/><ref name=NAW304/> Her appointment was hailed by the ''[[New York Tribune]]'' with the headline: "A Woman on Harvard Faculty—The Last Citadel Has Fallen—The Sex Has Come Into Its Own".<ref name=NLibMed/>  She commented, "yes, I am the first woman on the Harvard faculty—but not the first one who should have been appointed!"<ref name=Fee>{{cite journal|first1=Elizabeth|last1= Fee| first2= Theodore M. |last2=Brown |title=Alice Hamilton: Settlement Physician, Occupational Health Pioneer |journal=American Journal of Public Health|date=November 2001|volume=91|issue=11|page=1767|doi=10.2105/AJPH.91.11.1767|pmc=1446873 |pmid=11684598}}</ref>

During her years at Harvard, from 1919 to her retirement in 1935, Hamilton never received a faculty promotion and held only a series of three-year appointments. At her request, the half-time appointments for which she taught one semester per year allowed her to continue her research and spend several months of each year at Hull House. Hamilton also faced discrimination as a woman. She was excluded from social activities, could not enter the Harvard Union, attend the Faculty Club, or receive a quota of football tickets. In addition, Hamilton was not allowed to march in the university's commencement ceremonies as the male faculty members did.<ref name=NLibMed/><ref name=Jay149>Jay, p. 149.</ref><ref>{{cite web | title =A National Chemical Landmark: Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine, September 21, 2002 | publisher =American Chemical Society | date =2002 | url =https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton/alice-hamilton-and-the-development-of-occupational-medicine-commemorative-booklet.pdf | access-date =May 2, 2017 | url-status =live | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20171029121523/https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton/alice-hamilton-and-the-development-of-occupational-medicine-commemorative-booklet.pdf | archive-date =October 29, 2017 }}</ref>

Hamilton became a successful fundraiser for Harvard as she continued to write and conduct research on the dangerous trades. In addition to publishing "landmark reports for the U.S. Department of Labor" on research related to workers in Arizona copper mines and stonecutters at Indiana's limestone quarries,<ref name=Jay149/> Hamilton also wrote ''Industrial Poisons in the United States'' (1925), the first American textbook on the subject, and another related textbook, ''Industrial Toxicology'' (1934).<ref name=Landmark/><ref name=NAW305>Sicherman and Green, p. 305.</ref> At a tetraethyl lead conference in [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1925, Hamilton was a prominent critic of adding [[tetraethyl lead]] to gasoline.<ref name="Rosner">{{cite journal |last1=Rosner |first1=David |last2=Markowitz |first2=Gerald |title=A 'Gift of God'?: The Public Health Controversy over Leaded Gasoline during the 1920s |journal=American Journal of Public Health |date=April 1985 |volume=75 |issue=4 |pages=344–352 |doi=10.2105/ajph.75.4.344 |pmid=2579591 |pmc=1646253}}</ref><ref name=Tetraethyl>{{cite journal|first=Alice |last=Hamilton |title=What Price Safety, Tetraethyl Lead Reveals a Flaw in Our Defenses|journal=The Survey Mid-Monthly|date=June 15, 1925|volume=54|pages=333–34}}</ref><ref name=Dauvergne>{{cite book|first=Peter |last=Dauvergne|title=The shadows of consumption : consequences for the global environment|date=2010|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=978-0262514927|page=74|edition=First MIT Press paperback|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PEFBfoK9JIC&pg=PA74|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617164206/https://books.google.com/books?id=5PEFBfoK9JIC&pg=PA74|archive-date=June 17, 2016}}</ref>

Hamilton also remained an activist in social reform efforts.<ref name=NAW304/><ref name=Weber37/> Her specific interests in civil liberties, peace, birth control, and protective labor legislation for women caused some of her critics to consider her a "radical" and a "subversive."<ref name=Jay149/> From 1924 to 1930, she served as the only woman member of the [[League of Nations]] Health Committee.<ref name=Hilgenkamp>{{cite book|first=Kathryn |last=Hilgenkamp|title=Environmental Health|date=2011|publisher=Jones and Bartlett Learning|isbn=978-0763771089|page=327|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DuCNxKlDLogC&pg=PA327|access-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430082840/https://books.google.com/books?id=DuCNxKlDLogC&pg=PA327|archive-date=April 30, 2016}}</ref> She also visited the Soviet Union in 1924 and [[Nazi Germany]] in April 1933. Hamilton wrote "The Youth Who Are Hitler's Strength," which was published in ''The New York Times''. The article described [[Nazi]] exploitation of youth in the years between the two world wars.<ref name=NAW305/><ref name=Letters437>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', p. 437.</ref> She also criticized the Nazi education, especially its domestic training for girls.<ref name=Perry>{{cite book|first=Marvin |last=Perry|title=Sources of the Western Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Wadsworth |location=Belmont, California |volume=II|edition=5th}}</ref>