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Hughes, Charles Campbell
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1929-1997
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Charles Campbell Hughes was an anthropologist and educator who worked as a postgraduate researcher with Alexander and Dorothea Leighton and Jane Murphy on the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria, and the Sterling County Study in Digby County, Nova Scotia, between 1957-1961. He also collaborated with them on an earlier health study of the Inuit people of Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska, where he gathered field research for his doctorate in anthropology (1957) from Cornell University. In 1962 he was appointed to the African Studies Center, Michigan State University, where he was a director and later professor. He moved to the University of Utah in 1974, serving as a professor of anthropology as well as director of graduate programs at the medical school until his death in 1997.
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Murphy, Jane Leighton (1929-2021)
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family
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Jane Murphy and Charles Hughes were married between 1951 and 1962.
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Leighton, Dorothea Cross (1908-1992)
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associative
Dates of relationship
1954 - 1963
Description of relationship
Charles Hughes worked with Dorothea Leighton on the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research projects in the Western Region, Nigeria, and in Digby, Nova Scotia.
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Leighton, Alexander H. (1908-2007)
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associative
Dates of relationship
1952 - 1963
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Charles Hughes worked as a research assistant for Alexander Leighton during his PhD studies at Cornell University and later as a postgraduate researcher on the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research projects in the Western Region, Nigeria, and in Digby, Nova Scotia.