J. Douglas Hood

Joseph Douglas Hood (28 November 1889 – 22 October 1966) was an American entomologist and a specialist on the thrips (Thysanoptera). He served as a professor of entomology at the University of Rochester and at Cornell University.

Hood was born in Laramie, Wyoming to dentist Thomas Henry and Eva Maria Josephine Dickson. Hood was schooled at Irving School and Richard T. Crane High School in Chicago. At the age of eighteen he worked part-time at the Illinois Natural History Survey and described a new species of thrips. He received a BA in biological science from the University of Illinois in 1910 followed by a MA from George Washington University in 1913. During the first world war he taught military science and tactics at the University of Illinois (1910–11). Between 1917 and 1920 he served in the US Army. He then went to Cornell University and worked under J. Chester Bradley earning a Ph.D. in 1931. He worked as an instructor from 1922 to 1925 at the University of Rochester and became a full professor in 1928. He moved to Cornell University in 1938 where he became a full professor only in 1948. He retired in 1957 and then worked as an emeritus professor. Hood's students included Howard Ensign Evans.