| Douglas Hodgkin | |
| Birth Name: | Douglas Irving Hodgkin |
| Birth Place: | Lewiston, Maine, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Yale University Duke University |
Douglas Irving Hodgkin is an American political scientist and author. He is a professor emeritus of politics at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
Hodgkin was born in Lewiston, Maine.[1] Hodgkin received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.A. and Ph.D from Duke University. Hodgkin taught for 34 years at Bates, retired in 2000 at the age of 61.[2] [3] [4] He remains an emeritus professor at Bates.[5]
He wrote books on Lewiston history, including Frontier to Industrial City and Lewiston Politics in the Gilded Age. In 2005, Hodgkin published Fractured Family, a short book on the Maine courts.[3] [6] While a professor, Hodgkin was an activist with the Maine Republican Party.[2] He has been a long-time member of the Androscoggin Historical Society board of directors and of the Lewiston Historic Preservation Review Board.