Notable Fellows and Committee Members
Pioneering American political scientist Gabriel Almond (1911–2002) held awards from the SSRC in 1935-1936 and again in 1946-1947. While serving on an SSRC committee, he accomplished critical work in the development of comparative politics as a field.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph J. Bunche (1903–1971) held an SSRC research training fellowship in 1936-38.
Presidential biographer James MacGregor Burns (1918-) has held two SSRC awards: a demobilization award in 1946-1947, and a research training award in 1949.
Historian John Hope Franklin (1915–2009) was a recipient of an SSRC fellowship in the early part of his career. From 1956 to 1961, he served on the SSRC's long-running Grants-in-Aid Committee.
Canadian-American economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) had a research training fellowship in 1937-38.
Historian Peter J. Gay (1923-) was a research training fellow in 1950-1951.
Morris Janowitz (1919–1988), a prominent sociologist at the University of Chicago who specialized in the sociology of the military, received a demobilization award, 1946-1947.
Simon Kuznets (1901–1985), a Nobel laureate in economics, led the SSRC Committee on Economic Growth from 1949-1968. His long involvement with the SSRC began in 1925, when he was a research fellow studying economic patterns in prices. In 1961, Kuznets headed a new SSRC committee on the Economy of China.
Harold D. Lasswell (1902–1978) was among the earliest SSRC research fellows (1928–1929). He went on to become a prominent political scientist and president of ASPA.
Owen Lattimore (1900–1989), a prominent anthropologist of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia, held a research fellowship in 1929-1930.
Political sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset (1922–2006) held a field fellowship in 1945-46. One of the results was his award-winning book Political Man (1960), which remains thought provoking to this day—particularly the section on the relationship between economic development and democracy.
World-renowned cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901–1978) held a research fellowship in 1928-1929.
Economist and Nobel laureate Douglass C. North (1920-), best known for his work on new institutional economics, was an economic history fellow, 1949-1950.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (1954-) is a former SSRC board member.
Economist W.W. Rostow (1916–2003), best known for his work on the stages of economic growth, was a field fellow in 1939-1940.
Former Secretary of State George P. Schultz (1920-) was a research training fellow in 1947-1948.
Marxist economist Paul Sweezy (1910–2004), best known for his work Monopoly Capital, received a demobilization award in 1945-1946.
Economist and Nobel laureate James Tobin (1918–2002) was a research training fellow in 1946-47.
Albert Wohlstetter (1913–1997), the architect of U.S. nuclear security policy, was a field fellow, 1940-1941.
Historian and President of the Southern Historical Association, Francis Butler Simkins, (1897–1966) held a research fellowship.
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