Kellogg, Paul Underwood (1879–1958)

US editor and social reformer. In 1909 he joined the magazine Survey and was editor 1912–52. He forged it into the USA's leading journal of social work and a major force in social reform, and during the 1930s he saw many of his concerns addressed by President Roosevelt's New Deal.

In 1907 he commenced an in-depth study of every aspect of life in Pittsburgh, the first such social survey of a US urban community; it was published as the Pittsburgh Survey 1910–14 and became a model for sociological investigation, stimulating national calls for housing, workers' compensation, and other reforms.

He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After working as a journalist, he went to New York City in 1901 to study at Columbia University and then joined the editorial staff of Charities, a magazine devoted to philanthropic activities. In 1939 he was president of the National Conference of Social Work. In addition to advocating many social reforms that have since become widely accepted, he was active in a variety of progressive causes: he helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (1917) and the Foreign Policy Association (1918), and he supported the Spanish republicans against Franco.