experience in a sociological vein: a related cogitation was her lecture "Women in academic sociology, 1925–75," delivered to the plenary session of the 50th annual convention of the North Central Sociological Association, Columbus, Ohio, May 4, 1975, and another was "WASP/Woman/Sociologist." Hughes and Hughes jointly published a study of what happens when groups from different ethnic and racial backgrounds come into contact. In the early 1950s, she worked with Howard Becker on his interviews with young drug addicts, and edited one woman's story into a book, The Fantastic Lodge: The Autobiography of a Girl Drug Addict (1961). In 1967, the American Sociological Association invited her to lead in putting together a series of seven volumes of sociological readings for secondary schools, the 1970 Reading in Sociology Series volumes on Cities and City Life, Delinquents and Criminals, Life in Families, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Social Organizations, Population Growth and the Complex Society, and Crowd and Mass Behavior. Hughes edited six textbooks for a project on secondary education sponsored by the American Sociological Association, called "Sociological Resources for Social Studies." In 1973, Hughes was elected Vice President of the organization Sociologists for Women in Society and in 1978 she was elected President of the Eastern Sociological Association and Vice President of the American Sociological Association. Hughes's work has been discussed in the context of gender by Aimee-Marie Dorsten. References External links 1903 births 1992 deaths Canadian women sociologists Canadian sociologists Canadian emigrants to the United States