Lee was born in
Oakmont, Pennsylvania in 1906. He obtained an undergraduate (1927) and master's degree (1931) at the
University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. from
Yale University (1933). Among his academic appointments, Lee served as chair of the Sociology and Anthropology departments at
Wayne University from 1942 to 1947, and as chair of the Sociology and Anthropology department at
Brooklyn College from 1951 to 1957. He also served as president of the
American Sociological Association (1976–1977), In 1973 he was one of the signers of the
Humanist Manifesto II. Lee died of congestive heart failure at his home in
Madison, New Jersey, on May 19, 1992. ==Publications==