Hughes, Everett C. (Everett Cherrington), 1897-1983

Everett C. Hughes was born in 1897 in Beaver, Ohio. He received his A.B. at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1918 and continued with his education at the University of Chicago, earning a doctorate in both sociology and anthropology in 1928. He married Helen Gregory MacGill in 1927, and they had two daughters, Helen Cherrington Brock and Elizabeth Gregory Schneewind.

From 1927-1938, Hughes was a professor at McGill University in Canada. He wrote extensively on Canada, particularly French Canadian society. He took a teaching position at the University of Chicago in 1938, and he chaired the Department of Sociology there from 1952-1956. In 1961, he left Chicago and began teaching at Brandeis University, where he helped found the school's Graduate Department of Sociology. In 1968, he went to Boston College, where he taught until his retirement in 1976.

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