Notes on Contributors
Social Research: An International Quarterly, Volume 82, Number 1, Spring
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adolph augustus berle, jr. (1895–
1971) was on the faculty of Columbia
Law School and a member of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt’s Brain Trust, which
shaped the New Deal. He was assistant
secretary of state to Latin America
during World War II and, after the
war, ambassador to Brazil from 1945
to 1946. His books include Modern
Corporation and Private Property (1933),
Tides of Crisis (1957), and Power without
Property (1959).
franz boas (1859–1948), a noted
anthropologist, immigrated to the
United States in 1896. He lectured
at Columbia University for 41 years,
establishing there the first PhD
program in anthropology in the
United States. He also worked as an
assistant curator at American Museum
of Natural History. His books include
The Mind of Primitive Man (1911) and
Anthropology and Modern Life (1928).
richard hofstadter (1916–70),
DeWitt Clinton Professor of American
History at Columbia University, was
one of the nation’s most distinguished
historians. He authored and coauthored
14 books, among which were the
Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Reform
(1955) Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
(1963), and The Paranoid Style in American
Politics and other Essays (1965).
alvin johnson (1874–1971), the
first director and then president of
the New School for Social Research,
established the University in Exile, a
faculty of scholars rescued from totalitarian Europe, which became the New
School’s Graduate Faculty of Political
and Social Science. An economist,
assistant editor of the New Republic,
and associate editor of the Encyclopedia
of the Social Sciences, he was also the
founder of Social Research.
erich kahler (1885–1970), a Jewish
scholar forced to flee Germany in
1933, was the author of numerous
works, including The Tower and the
Abyss: An Inquiry into the Transformation
of Man (1957) and a history of the
German people, entitled Der Deutsche
Charakter in der Geschichte Eumpas (1937).
His work addressed the changing roles
of science, technology, and history,
and he also dealt with the role of the
Jews in world history. After emigrating
to the United States, he held numerous positions, including at the New
School for Social Research, Princeton
University, and Columbia University.
ira katznelson, a former dean of
the New School’s Graduate Faculty
of Political and Social Science, is
Ruggles Professor of Political Science
and History at Columbia University
and president of the Social Science
Research Council. His 2013 book, Fear
Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our
Time, has been awarded the Bancroft,
Woodrow Wilson, Sidney Hillman, and
J. David Greenstone Book Prizes.
siegfried kracauer (1889–1966) was
a Jewish German writer, journalist,
sociologist, cultural critic, and film
theorist. In 1933 he was forced to leave
Germany for Paris, and subsequently
emigrated to the United States in 1941,
where he worked for, among other
institutions, the Museum of Modern
Art and Columbia University. His
books include From Caligari to Hitler: A
Psychological History of the German Film
(1947), a landmark publication in
cinema studies.
harold d. lasswell (1902–78) was
a political scientist who brought
psychology and psychoanalysis to
bear on his work in behavioral political science. He taught or researched
at such institutions as the University
of Chicago, United States Library of
Congress, Yale University, and City
University of New York. His books
include World Politics and Personal
Insecurity (1935), Psychopathology and
Politics (1930), and Power and Personality
(1948).
emil lederer (1882–1939), a
Bohemian-born German economist
and sociologist, was forced out of his
position at Humboldt University of
Berlin in 1933 for being Jewish. Having
fled the country, he helped Alvin
Johnson create the University in Exile,
which became the Graduate Faculty of
Political and Social Science at the New
School, and served as its first dean and
as a professor until his death in 1939.
His books include Technical Progress
and Unemployment: An Inquiry into the
Obstacles to Economic Expansion (1931)
and State of the Masses: The Threat of the
Classless Society (1939).
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thomas mann (1875–1955) was a
German-born novelist who won the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. He
was exiled to Switzerland in 1933 and
moved to the United States in 1939.
Among his many notable books are
Buddenbrooks (1901), Death in Venice
(1912), and The Magic Mountain (1924).
wesley c. mitchell (1874–1948), an
economist and authority on business
cycles, was one of the founders of the
New School for Social Research and
of the National Bureau of Economic
Research. He also taught at the
Universities of Chicago and California,
and at Columbia University. His publications include Business Cycles (1913),
Business Cycles: The Problem and Its Setting
(1927), and The Backward Art of Spending
Money (1937).
kurt riezler (1882–1955) was a toplevel cabinet adviser in Germany and
the Weimar Republic, and professor of
philosophy and chairman of the board
at the University of Frankfurt. With
the rise of Nazism he was forced out of
his positions and, in 1939, emigrated
to the United States, where he joined
New School for Social Research as
a professor of philosophy. His work
addresses a wide range of topics in
political philosophy, including shame,
truth, fear, public opinion, and human
rights.
clinton rossiter (1917–70) taught
government at Cornell University and
was a Visiting Professor at Cambridge
University. His book Seedtime of the
Republic (1953) was awarded the
Bancroft Prize and the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation Award. His other
notable books include Constitutional
Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the
Modern Democracies (1948) and The
American Presidency (1956).
hans speier (1905–90), a German
Jewish sociologist who had to leave
Germany to survive, was a founding member of the New School’s
University in Exile. He also worked
with the Rand Corporation, Council
on Foreign Relations, and University
of Massachusetts. During World
War II, he was a propaganda adviser
in the United States Office of War
Information and then associate
acting chief of the State Department’s
Occupied Areas Division. His book
German White-Collar Workers and the Rise
of Hitler was suppressed by the Nazis
and remained unpublished until it was
brought out by Oxford University Press
in 1986.
leo strauss (1899–1973) was a leading
German Jewish classicist and historian
and an interpreter of ancient, medieval, and modern political philosophy.
When Hitler came to power he was
unable to live in Germany, and in 1938
became a founding member of the
University in Exile at the New School,
where he remained for 10 years before
joining the faculty at the University
of Chicago. Among his works are
Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952),
Natural Right and History (1953), On
Tyranny (1948), and The City and Man
(1964).
paul tillich (1886–1965), a Germanborn theologian who taught at the
universities of Berlin, Marburg,
Dresden, and Frankfurt, became in
1933 the first non-Jewish academic
to be barred from teaching due to
his public criticism of Hitler and
the Nazi movement. He came to
New York to join the faculty of the
Union Theological Seminary, where
he remained for 22 years. Among
his many important books are The
Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of
Faith (1957), as well as his monumental
Systematic Theology (1951). In 1956 he
was awarded the highest service order
of the German Federal Republic (the
Grosses Verdienskreuz) and the Goethe
Medal from the City of Frankfurt am
Main.
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