F. Stuart Chapin

Francis Stuart Chapin (1888 to 1974) was an American sociologist and educator, professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota from 1922 to 1953. He took his bachelor's degree in 1909 and his Ph.D. in 1911 at Columbia University, taught economics at Wellesley College for a year, and then taught sociology at Smith College, where he was department chair from 1912 to 1921. He was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1920 and played an important role in the creation of a quantitative, statistical sociology in the United States between the two world wars. He served as the 25th president of the American Sociological Association and was a prime mover in the creation of the Social Science Research Council. One of his students was the writer Myra Page.