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Vera L. Zolberg, a pioneer of sociology of arts and memory studies, was born in Vienna in 1932. Amidst the growing anti-Semitism her family left Vienna for the United States in 1935, travelling together with Louis Armstrong who was just returning from his European tour, and who enjoyed playing music for the kids in his […]
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“Breaking the rules, taking risks comes at a price,” says Sondra Farganis, Director Emeritus of both the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (VLC) and the Wolfson Center for National Affairs at the New School (WC). Dr. Farganis was a draft resistance counselor during the Viet Nam War. In her oral history interview for […]
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Alfred Schütz (b. April 13, 1899 Vienna – d. May 20, 1959 New York City) studied law and economics with Ludwig Von Mises, Othmar Spann and Hans Kelsen, and graduated from the University of Vienna in financial law. He was an employee (1921-1925) and later a director (1926-1938) at the Bankverein and then at the […]
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Peter Ludwig Berger (b. March 17, 1929), one of America’s foremost sociologists of religion, both studied and taught at the New School. After earning a B.A. from Wagner College/Staten Island in 1949, Berger pursued graduate studies at the New School, where he could attend school in the evening. He studied under many German Jewish refugee […]
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Julie Meyer, a pioneering scholar in the sociology of labor, was born in Nuremberg, Germany, on January 15, 1897, to a banking family. She studied in Munich and Erlangen and received her Ph.D. from the University of Erlangen in 1922. After graduating, Meyer worked in a municipal high school from 1922-1933 and in the Municipal […]
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Janet L. Abu-Lughod (1928-2013), professor emerita at The New School for Social Research and of Sociology at Northwestern University, held graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She joined The New School for Social Research in 1987 with appointments in Sociology and Historical Studies, thriving in this intellectual environment. […]
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Hans Speier was a sociologist and founder of the University in Exile. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Hans Speier, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. For more in the New School Archives on Hans Speier, see the New School faculty vertical files […]
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Erich Fromm was a German-American social psychologist and psychoanalyst, who was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His work challenged the theories of Sigmund Freud, [1] and brought psychoanalysis to bear on sociological and political questions. Fromm was born in 1900 in Frankfurt to Jewish parents. He studied at the University of Heidelberg […]
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Elsie Clews Parsons, née Elsie Worthington Clews (November 27, 1875, N.Y., N.Y. – December 19, 1941, N.Y., N.Y.), was an American sociologist and anthropologist who produced landmark studies of the Pueblo and other Native American tribes in the Southwest, Mexico, and South America. [1] Born to wealth, her education reflected her family’s position: private schools, […]
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Charles Tilly taught sociology at The New School. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Charles Tilly, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. For more in the New School Archives on Charles Tilly, see the Center for Studies of Social Change (CSSC) working papers, […]