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Biographical Note
Robert Staughton Lynd
Date | Event |
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1892, Sept. 26 | Born, New Albany, Ind. |
1914 | B.A. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
1914-1918 | Editor, Publishers' Weekly |
1919 | Manager, advertising and publicity, Charles Scribner's Sons |
1920 | Assistant publisher, B. W. Huebsch, Inc., and the Freeman |
1921 | Married Helen Merrell (died 1982) |
1922 | Missionary and writer, Elk Basin, Wyo., oil fields |
1923 | B.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y. |
1923-1926 | Director, Small City Study, Institute of Social and Religious Research |
1926-1927 | Assistant director, Division of Educational Research, Commonwealth Fund |
1927-1931 | Assistant to chairman, later permanent secretary, Social Sciences Research Council |
1929 | Published with Helen Merrell Lynd Middletown, a Study in Contemporary American Culture. New York: Harcourt, Brace |
1931 | Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
1931-1960 | Professor of sociology, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
1937 | Published with Helen Merrell Lynd Middletown in Transition; a Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace |
1939 | Published Knowledge for What? The Place of Social Science in American Culture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press |
1970, Nov. 1 | Died, New York, N.Y. |
Helen Merrell Lynd
Date | Event |
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1896, Mar. 17 | Born, La Grange, Ill. |
1919 | B.A., Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. |
1921 | M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Married Robert Staughton Lynd (died 1970) |
1929 | Published with Robert Staughton Lynd Middletown, a Study in Contemporary American Culture. New York: Harcourt, Brace |
1929-1964 | Engaged in research and writing Lecturer, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y, and Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y. |
1937 | Published with Robert Staughton Lynd Middletown in Transition; a Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace |
1944 | Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
1945 | Published England in the Eighteen-Eighties: Toward a Social Basis for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press Published Field Work in College Education. New York: Columbia University Press |
1958 | Published On Shame and the Search for Identity. New York: Harcourt, Brace |
1965 | Published Toward Discovery. Bronxville, N.Y.: Sarah Lawrence College |
1982 | Died, Warren, Ohio |