David Albert Hollinger (/hɑːliŋər/) (born April 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2022 Hollinger published Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular (Princeton University Press).

The most well known of his eight previous books are Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995), Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (1996), After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism and Modern American History (2013), and Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America (2017).

One of his articles has become a standard treatment of the process of racialization and ethnoracial mixture, "Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States," American Historical Review, 2003.

Hollinger has been the Ph.D. advisor to people who have become well established as publishing scholars in history, including Jennifer Burns, Nils Gilman, Daniel Immerwahr, Susan Nance and Gene Zubovich.