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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES Historian Hughes Dies at 83
H. Stuart Hughes, former Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard and professor emeritus at the University of California at San Diego, died Oct. 21 in San Diego. He was 83. Hughes, who specialized in intellectual and cultural history, was known for his political activism as well as for his scholarship. He supported nuclear disarmament, chairing the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and ran an independent campaign for the U.S. Senate against Edward M. Kennedy in 1962. Hughes wrote several books, including Consciousness and Society in 1958, Contemporary Europe: A History in 1961, and his 1990 autobiography, Gentleman Rebel: The Memoirs of H. Stuart Hughes. Hughes received his A.B. from Amherst College and both his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard. He served as assistant professor of history at Harvard from 1948 to 1952. He left Harvard to join the faculty at Stanford University, where he served as associate professor and professor of history. Hughes returned to Harvard in 1957 as professor of history. He was named Gurney Professor of History and Political Science in 1969. He left Harvard to join the faculty at University of California at San Diego in 1975.
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