Charles Horton Cooley, (UM Ph. D., 1894), instructor of political economy, was named assistant professor of sociology and taught the university's first course in the subject in 1899. Cooley, the son of famed Law School professor and State Supreme Court Justice Thomas McIntyre Cooley, would go on to become one of the seminal theorists in the young discipline. His books on social organization and culture became classics and are still assigned in university courses.

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Photo credit: Charles Horton Cooley Papers, Box 7, Photos