Stuart Carter Dodd (1900-1975) was an American sociologist and an educator, who published research on the Middle East and on mathematical sociology, and was a proponent of scientific polling.
He began his career as professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Science Research Section of the American University of Beirut.
During World War II, Dodd directed opinion survey work for the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Sicily and the Near East.
He further served on the board of the Forum Foundations, which conducted futures research in the field of Administrative Theory and Many-to-Many Communication technology.
He was the only pollster to accurately predict, that U.S. President Harry S. Truman would defeat Governor Thomas E. Dewey and was called to testify before Congress as to how that all happened.