Charles Melvin Hudson Jr. (1932–2013) was an anthropologist, a professor of anthropology and history at the University of Georgia. He was a leading scholar on the history and culture of Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the present-day United States. He is known for his book mapping the expedition of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in the mid-16th century in the Southeast, based on both the expedition's records and sites identified through archeology and anthropology.

The forgotten centuries
1994
ISBN 9780820316543
Black drink
1979
ISBN 9780820355801
The Juan Pardo expeditions
1990
ISBN 9780817351908
Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa
2003
ISBN 9780807898949
The Catawba Nation
1970
ISBN 9780820302553
Four centuries of southern Indians
1975
ISBN 9780820303321
The Southeastern Indians
1976
ISBN 9780870491870
Elements of southeastern Indian religion
1984
ISBN 9789004069459
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
1997
ISBN 9780820318882
The packhorseman
2009
ISBN 9780817355401