Hughes, Helen MacGill, 1903-1992
Dates
- Existence: 1903 - 1992-04-29
Biographical note
Helen MacGill Hughes was born in 1903 in Vancouver, BC, to lawyer and journalist James Henry MacGill (1870-1939) and Helen Gregory MacGill (1864-1947), the first female judge in British Columbia. Hughes received her BA in Economics and German from the University of British Columbia in 1925, and her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1936. She served as the editorial assistant and later managing editor of the American Journal of Sociology. Her primary scholarly and personal interests were in women’s rights, women in academia, and media studies. Helen MacGill Hughes died in Baltimore in 1992.
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Everett C. Hughes papers
This collection contains personal, professional, scholarly, and teaching material from sociologist Everett C. Hughes, whose areas of scholarly interest included multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and multi-lingual societies; the sociology of work and occupations; and the history and sociology of educational institutions.