Lotte Bailyn
American social psychologist (b. 1930)
Lotte Franziska Bailyn (née Lazarsfeld; born July 17, 1930) is an American social psychologist. She is the T Wilson Professor of Management, Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She was the first woman faculty member at MIT Sloan.
Early life and education
Lotte Lazarsfeld was born in Vienna, Austria in 1930. She is the daughter of Marie Jahoda and Paul Felix Lazarsfeld. Her family fled Austria to New York City in 1937 after the Nazi occupation.
In 1951, she earned her BA in mathematics from Swarthmore College and her PhD in social psychology from the Radcliffe Graduate School in 1956.
Career
Like many female academics of her generation, Bailyn had no serious career opportunities and got by in research with temporary contracts. In 1956 and 1957, she worked as a research associate at Harvard University, in 1957 and 1958 as an instructor in the Department of Economics and Social Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then again for the next few years without a permanent job as an assistant and lecturer at Harvard. In 1969, she returned to MIT and got a position as associate professor there in 1972 when she was 41 years old.
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