Edward C. Hayes

Edward Cary Hayes (1868 to 1928) was an American sociologist, born in Lewiston, Maine, who helped bring sociology into American college teaching. He studied at Bates College and the Cobb Divinity School and was a pastor in Augusta, Maine until 1896, when he became a dean at Keuka College. In 1899 he enrolled at the University of Chicago, first for philosophy and then for sociology, where he studied under Albion Small alongside George Herbert Mead, John Dewey and James Tufts. He then spent a year at the University of Berlin, studying with Gustav Schmoller, Adolph Wagner, Friedrich Paulsen, Alfred Vierkandt and Georg Simmel, and took his doctorate in 1902. He taught at Miami University in Ohio and at the University of Illinois, and wrote Introduction to the Study of Sociology (1915) and Sociology and Ethics (1921). He attended the first meeting of the American Sociological Association in 1905, served on its Committee of Ten on introductory courses, and became its eleventh president in 1921. He died in Urbana, Illinois, in 1928.