Education
Stuart Dodd graduated from Princeton University in 1926.
Stuart Dodd graduated from Princeton University in 1926.
He began his career as professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Science Research Section of the American University of Beirut. During World World War II, Dodd directed opinion survey work for the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Sicily and the Near East. After the war in 1947, Dodd was appointed Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington and director of the newly created Public Opinion Laboratory, the precursor for the Institute Foreign Sociological Research at the University of Washington, where he remained until 1961.
He further served on the board of the Forum Foundations, which conducted futures research in the field of Administrative Theory and Many-to-Many Communication technology.
He was a Fellow of the National Research Council and the Rockefeller Foundation.
End 1950s he was among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research.