 Addams influenced and was influenced by the “Chicago School,” an active collaboration of cross-disciplinary scholars at the University of Chicago, including Dewey, Mead, James Hayden Tufts, Robert E. Park, and others who had a significant impact on philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Although she was often frustrated with the abstract trajectory of the university, Addams embraced reflective analysis. Through her Hull House experience, Addams took many opportunities to theorize about the interchange between theory and practice. For a time, American philosophy, sociology, and social work existed in a symbiotic harmony—each not differentiated from the other but benefiting from the interchange. Unfortunately, since the early 20th century when Mead, Dewey, and Addams were together in Chicago, the intellectual genealogy of American philosophy, sociology, and social work has more drastically diverged to a point where the crossover is less likely and perhaps less welcome. Lost in the compartmentalization of these disciplines is how Jane Addams played a role in each.