Background
Cushman, Robert Eugene was born on March 27, 1889 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Sylvanus Dustin and Estelle Caroline (Hodgman) Cushman.
Cushman, Robert Eugene was born on March 27, 1889 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Sylvanus Dustin and Estelle Caroline (Hodgman) Cushman.
Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin, 1911. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1917. Doctor of Letters, Oberlin College, 1946.
Instructor in history and civics, Oberlin Academy, 1911-1913. Instructor political science, University of Illinois, 1915-1918, associate, 1918-1919. Associate professor political science, University of Minnesota, 1919-1922, professor, 1922-1923.
Professor government, Cornell Univercity since 1923, head department, 1923-1946, Goldwin Smith professor government 1929-1957.
Director Cornell Research in Civil Liberties 1943-1957. Visiting professor political science, Vanderbilt University, 1957-1958.
Member staff of President's Committee on Administrative Management, 1936. Trustee Cornell Univercity, Wells College. Fellow American Academy Arts and Science.
Member American Philosophical Society, American Political Science Association (president 1943), Sigma Phi Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Phi.
Member of the board editors American Political Science Review 1923-1948.
Married Clarissa White Fairchild, December 25, 1916. Children: Robert Fairchild, John Fairchild.