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Agnes de Lima was born in New Jersey to a conservative banking family that had emigrated from Curaçao. De Lima grew up in Larchmont, New York, and New York City, and graduated from Vassar College in 1908, majoring in English. During her Vassar years she participated in organizing to improve the working conditions and pay […]
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Sara Ruddick (1935-2011) was an influential philosopher and feminist, best known for her analysis and research on the care of children. She earned her undergraduate degree at Vassar College in 1957, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1964. She was among the female philosophers became a part of the oral history project in […]
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Mary Henle was a professor of psychology at the New School and the last surviving second-generation Gestalt theorist. Her accomplished career belies the restrictions women generally faced during the same period in the field of psychology. Born in 1913, Henle had the early advantage of parents who valued education and encouraged her to pursue her […]
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Margaret McKay Tee was born in 1882 and raised in Pennsylvania until her family moved to Colorado. Following her education at Colorado College, she trained at New York’s Cooper Union and Columbia Teacher’s College, where she met Frank Alvah Parsons. Tee subsequently worked for Parsons as a student instructor when he joined the faculty of […]
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Karen Horney taught psychology at The New School. You can read more about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Karen Horney, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. Records pertaining to Karen Horney can be found in the New School Archives in the New School faculty vertical files collection.
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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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Urban theorist and writer Jane Jacobs was born on May 4, 1916, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Although she had no formal training as an urban planner, Jane Jacobs revolutionized the way we look at cities. Her vision was inspired by her time living in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, a mixture of townhouses, walk-up apartment […]
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Many at The New School would agree that it is difficult to graduate from the university without hearing the name Hannah Arendt. Working primarily at the intersection of contemporary politics and philosophy, Arendt’s radical ideas and writings inspired–and continue to inspire–both widespread admiration and controversy in academic and popular circles alike. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Arendt and […]
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Frieda Wunderlich (b. Berlin, November 8, 1894—d. East Orange, NJ, December 9, 1965) was the only woman in the original group of scholars that formed the University-in- Exile at The New School in 1933. Prior to emigration, she held numerous positions in Germany, many of public political importance. After receiving her doctorate from the University […]