Richard Hodges, OBE, FSA (born 29 September 1952) is a British archaeologist and past president of the American University of Rome.

Beginning with Dark Age Economics (1982), he reviewed the changing regional patterns of urban phenomena – especially emporia – in the making of north-west Europe.

Perhaps his most significant contribution to this theme was the 18-year (1980–98) excavations at San Vincenzo al Volturno, an Italian Benedictine monastery of the Carolingian renaissance, where together with the art historian, John Mitchell, the history and culture was unearthed and set within a European context.

[5] Hodges pursued a similar approach at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Butrint, the Graeco-Roman town in southern Albania, where over 20 years (1993-2012) representing the Butrint Foundation (Lords Rothschild and Sainsbury), and partnering with the Packard Humanities Institute, he developed a large-scale research programme (with many publications) and a concurrent cultural heritage programme.

670792) with the University of Siena entitled 'The creation of economic and monetary union (7th to 12th centuries): mining, landscapes and political strategies in a Mediterranean region'.

This project involves excavations at Vetricella, a complex 9th- to 11th- century elite site near Scarlino, a study of Portus Scabris on the Tyrrhenian Sea, environmental and archaeological studies of the Pegora valley corridor, and a major analysis of Italian early Medieval silver coinage with a view to identifying silver extracted from the Colline Metallifere.

As Director of the British School at Rome (1988–95) Hodges was faced with running an institution as government policy on higher education was being radically changed.

with a prominent emphasis upon activity-led projects aimed at raising the School's profile and winning support for refurbishing the it building (originally constructed by Sir Edwin Lutyens).