ABSTRACT
I In 1892 Simmel was being considered for a position at an American university. In 1893 he complained that he had wasted eighteen months in useless negotiations. We do not know, as yet, which university had made the original offer, though Simmel’s contacts with the United States at that time were limited. We know, at least, that he was corresponding with the psychologist Stanley Hall-then at Clark University, Massachusetts.1 By 1895 Simmel was publishing in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (in fact a translation of his crucial essay The Problem of Sociology’).2 In the following year, Simmel began to contribute to the newly founded American Journal of Sociology based at Chicago University and edited by Albion Small.
