Hugh Hawkins

Hugh Hawkins
Born(1929-09-03)September 3, 1929
DiedMay 6, 2016(2016-05-06) (aged 86)
OccupationHistorian
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1961)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe birth of a university: a history of the Johns Hopkins university from the death of the founder to the end of the first year of academic work, 1873-1877 (1954)
Doctoral advisorCharles A. Barker
Academic work
Sub-disciplineHistory of universities
Institutions

Hugh Dodge Hawkins (September 3, 1929 – May 6, 2016) was an American historian. A 1961 Guggenheim Fellow, he wrote three books on university history: Pioneer: A History of the Johns Hopkins University (1960), Between Harvard and America (1972), and Banding Together (1992). He spent more than four decades as a professor at Amherst College, where he became Anson D. Morse Professor of History and American Studies. After her retirement, he wrote two memoirs and a semi-autobiographical short story collection.