Hugh Hawkins
Hugh Hawkins | |
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| Born | September 3, 1929 Topeka, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | May 6, 2016 (aged 86) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1961) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The 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 advisor | Charles A. Barker |
| Academic work | |
| Sub-discipline | History 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.