Gordon B. Dodds

Gordon B. Dodds (March 12, 1932 – August 29, 2003) was a professor of history and then professor emeritus at Portland State University (PSU) as well as an author. He wrote and edited several books and contributed articles and reviews for the Journal of American History, Western Political Quarterly, American Historical Review, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and Oregon Historical Quarterly.

He chaired PSU's history department from 1996 to 1999, was a union leader of PSU faculty in the American Association of University Professors, and an archivist for the university after he retired as a professor. Oregon: A Bicentennial History (1977) Oregon: A History (1977) Hiram Martin Crittenden; His Public Career The American Northwest; A History of Oregon and Washington (1986) Varieties of Hope: An Anthology of Oregon Prose, editor (1993) The College That Would Not Die; The First Fifty Years of Portland State University (2000) The Silicon Forest: High Tech in the Portland Area, 1945 to 1986 with Craig E. Wollner