Howard Schuman (1928–2021) was a research scientist at SRC and a sociology professor at U-M’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Schuman’s research concerned the quality of the question-answer process in large scale surveys; changes in racial attitudes over time; and the effects of generational experience on collective memory.

Schuman served as director of the Detroit Area Study in the Senate Assembly, and on the Rackham Graduate School’s Divisional Board for the Social Sciences