Heritage Interview Series

The AAPOR Heritage Interview Series was initiated as a way to preserve knowledge about the founding of the public opinion research profession, the development of new ideas that have had a lasting effect on the work we do, and the growth of AAPOR itself.  Since 2002, the Heritage Interview Committee has identified individuals who have made significant contributions to our field and has interviewed many of them, below.

This section remains under development; check back for more interviews and additional biographical information.

AAPOR thanks the Kaiser Family Foundation for helping bring these videos to the Web.

• Herbert Abelson - high-res | low-res | biography
• Richard Baxter - high-res | low-res | biography
• Norman Bradburn - high-res | low-res
• Leo Bogart  - high-res | low-res | biography
• Helen Crossley - high-res | low-res | biography
• Jack Elinson - high-res | low-res
• Mervin Field - high-res | low-res | biography
• Robert Ford - high-res | low-res
• Herbert Krugman - high-res pt1 | hi-res pt 2 | low-res pt 1 | low-res pt2
• Gladys & Kurt Lang  - high-res | low-res | biographies
• Richard Petty  - high-res | low-res | biography
• Harry O'Neill - high-res
• Burns "Bud" Roper - high-res | low-res
• Howard Schuman - high-res | low-res (interview conducted under University of Michigan's Institute for Survey Research History Project, by Eric Austin on 3/22/98)
• Eleanor Singer - high-res | low-res | biography
• Frank Stanton - high-res
• Michael Traugott - high-res | low-res | biography
• Pearl Zinner - high-res | low-res