Homer Hitt

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Homer Lee Hitt (born April 22, 1916 as Komantsche ; † January 27, 2008 in New Orleans ) was a sociologist and the founding chancellor of the University of New Orleans .

family

Homer Hitt was married to Douglas "Dougie" Grace Callari Hitt, who was widowed at the age of 67. He was the youngest of four brothers. His parents were Allen Hitt of Tyler County , Texas, and Sammie Lee Daniels Hitt, born in Tullahoma , Tennessee . He himself had two daughters and four grandchildren. He died at the age of 91 in the health retreatment Woldenberg Village in New Orleans.

Career

After graduating from high school, Hitt studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1935 and his master's degree in 1938. In 1941 he received his PhD in sociology from Harvard University . His dissertation dealt with the topic of People of Louisiana , which had particularly influenced him as a member of the indigenous people. In 1952, Hitt was one of five US scientists elected to the International Union of the Scientific Study of Population , founded in 1928 .

At Louisiana State University, he was elected Vice President in 1959 and Chancellor in 1963. In 1980 he resigned from this position.

Publications

  • HHL and Jerah Johnson: UNO prisms: 1958–1983 , University of New Orleans - History. 1983
  • Migration Between the South and Other Regions , Social Forces. 36: 9-16, October 1957
  • Population movements in the southern United States . In: Scientific Monthly 82 (5): 241-246. May 1956.
An analysis of the movements of urban migrants in the south of the country. Examines such aspects of recent population movements as the source and destination of migrants, the approximate magnitude of the population transfer, and an idea of ​​the population redistribution that has occurred.
  • Peopling the city: Migration. In: The urban south, pp. 54-77. Rupert B. Vance and Nicholas J. Demerath, editors, U. of NC Press, Chapel Hill. 1954.
Analyzes the sources and extent of migration to southern cities and the selection of this migration. Compare migration to the urban south with city walks in other regions of the nation.
  • HHL and Reed Howard Bradford: Social aspects of hospital planning in Louisiana, in: Louisiana. Office of the Governor. Health and Hospital Division. Louisiana study series, no.1, 1947
  • HHL and Reed Howard Bradford: The Relation of Residential Instability to Fertility, in: Rural Sociology, No. 5 (March 1940), pp. 88-92.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hitt Scrapbooks Collection . Earl K. Long Library, New Orleans
  2. ^ Obituary for Dignity Memorial
personal data
SURNAME Hitt, Homer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hitt, Homer Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyler County
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2008
Place of death New Orleans