ABSTRACT
This chapter explores three topics: Lazarsfeld’s departure for the United States and his attempts to re-establish his academic career; another group’s (Frankfurt Institute) necessity to leave Nazi Germany and its relationships with Columbia’s Bureau of Social Research; and an exploration of the unacknowledged intellectual contributions of Lazarsfeld’s female staff to the theoretical development of U.S. radio and mass communication studies. Among these were Lazarsfeld’s two wives: Marie Jahoda and Herta Herzog, as well as Hazel Gaudet Erskine who worked on The Invasion of Mars (1940) and The People’s Choice (1944), and Marjorie Fiske, who co-authored with Merton Mass Persuasion (1946) and became Deputy Director of Voice of America (VOA) 1949–55.
