Hugh Hawkins

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, 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. Biography Hugh Dodge Hawkins was born on September 3, 1929, in Topeka, Kansas,

From 1954 to 1956, he served in the United States Army, In 1961, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of American university presidents in the period 1865-1915". One of his administrative achievements was his work on the departments of history and American studies, as well as the freshman introductory liberal studies course. The Hugh Hawkins Lecture at Amherst College is named after him.