Laetitia Moon Conard
American college professor
Elizabeth Laetitia Moon Conard (May 9, 1871 – November 29, 1946) was an American college instructor, politician, community leader and activist, based in Iowa. She taught sociology and economics at Grinnell College, and ran for governor of Iowa in 1932.
Early life and education
Elizabeth Laetitia Moon was born in Fallsington, Pennsylvania, the daughter of James H. Moon and Elizabeth Balderston Moon. Her parents were Quakers, and she attended Westtown School. She graduated from Smith College with a bachelor's degree in 1894, and a master's degree in 1896. She pursued further studies at the Sorbonne, and completed a doctorate in comparative religion at the University of Chicago in 1899, with a dissertation titled "Ideas of the Future Life Held by Algonkin Indian Tribes". It was the second doctorate awarded by the comparative religion department at Chicago. She later earned further credentials in economics and sociology at Columbia University.
Career
Moon's doctoral research was published in 1900 as "Les idées des Indiens algonquins relatives a la vie d'outre-tombe" in the Revue de l'histoire des religions, and in 1903 as "The Idea of God Held by North American Indians" in The American Journal of Theology. During the same time, in 1901, she wrote an obituary notice about religion scholar Léon Marillier for The Open Court.
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