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Rodney Hopson, Ph.D.Professor |
Courses Taught
Education and Social Justice (ProDEL)
Social Justice in Educational Settings (LTFL)
Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research (CIQR) Pro-Seminar
Ethics, Education, and the Teaching Profession
Introduction to Program Evaluation
Education
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
National Institute on Drug Abuse Postdoctorate Research Fellow, Department of Health Policy and Management (July, 1997 – June, 1998).
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Educational Evaluation. Department of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy, Curry School of Education (August 1997).
Master of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics, Interdepartmental Program of Linguistics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (May, 1996).
Honors/Awards
Eugene P. Beard Award for Leadership in Ethics, Duquesne University (2011).
Hillman Distinguished Professorship, Duquesne University (2006 – 2011).
Robert Ingle Award for Service, American Evaluation Association (2010).
Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Duquesne University (2009).
Visiting Fellowship, Wolfson College, Cambridge University (2005 – 2006).
Presidential Scholarship, Office of the Provost and Academic Vice President, Duquesne University (2003, 1999).
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, Council for International Exchange of Scholars to Republic of Namibia, Southern Africa (2001).
Marcia Guttentag Early Career Award, American Evaluation Association (2000).
Why should a prospective student choose Duquesne University?
Duquesne University’s mission is real and challenges all of us all to live to a higher standard and encourages us to embrace excellence and integrity.
What drew you to teach at Duquesne University?
I was drawn initially to what I saw as a loving and collegial support of a department and school that was poised to do great things amongst its peers, in the local community and the in the world.
Research Interests
Ethnographic Evaluation
Sociolinguistics
Social Politics and Policy
Foundations of Education
Current Projects
Torres, R., Hopson, R., & Casey, J. (2012, expected). Engaging stakeholders with graphic conceptual models: Logic models, theories of change, systems approaches. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Yeakey, C., Hopson, R., & Brooks-Buck, J. (2011, in development). Urban renewal for whom? Neighborhood inequality and the politics of contested space.
Stokes, H. & Hopson, R.K. (2009 – present). Evaluation of the Pittsburgh Public School’s Culturally Responsive Arts Education Program.
Spilka, G.J. & Hopson, R.K. (2008 – present). Increasing Diversity in the Evaluation Field Through Training, Mentoring, and Professional Development. Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Professional Affiliations (selected)
American Anthropological Association (2001 – present).
American Educational Research Association (1995 – present).
Chair-Designate, International Relations Committee (2011).
American Evaluation Association (1988 – 1990; 1994 – present).
President-Elect and Executive Committee member (Jan 2011 – present)
Co-Chair, Annual Conference Strand Committee (2009-2010)
Comparative and International Education Society (1997 – present).
Recent Publications (selected)
Books published
Yarbrough, D., Shulha, L.M., Hopson, R., & Caruthers, F. (2010). The program evaluation standards: A guide for evaluators and evaluation users (3rd ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Hopson, R.K. , Yeakey, C.C., & Boakari, F.. (Eds.). (2008). Power, Voice and The Public Good: Schooling and Education in Global Societies. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Edited journals
Hopson, R. & Dixson, A. (Eds.) (2011). Race and ethnography: Intersections, theories, and meanings. Ethnography and Education. London: Routledge.
Peer reviewed articles
McCarty, T., Collins, J., & Hopson, R. (2011, in press). Dell Hymes and the new [language] policy studies: Update from an underdeveloped country. Anthropology and Education Quarterly.
Miller, P., Brown, T., & Hopson, R. (2011, in press). Centering love, hope, and trust in the community: Transformative urban leadership informed by Paulo Freire. Urban Education.
Stokes, H., Chaplin, S., Dessouky, S., Aklilu, L., & Hopson, R. (2011, in press). Serving marginalized populations through culturally responsive evaluation. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education.
Hopson, R. (2010). Language Rights and San in Namibia: A fragile and ambitious but necessary proposition. International Journal of Human Rights, 15(1), 111-126.
Hopson, R., Hotep, U., Schneider, D., & Turenne, I. (2010). What’s Educational Leadership Without an African-Centered Perspective?: Explorations and Extrapolations. Urban Education, 45(6), 777-796.
Book chapters
Hopson, R. (2011). Reconstructing ethnography and language policy in colonial Namibian schooling: Historical perspectives of St. Mary’s High School at Odibo. In McCarty, T.L. (Ed.). Ethnography and Language Policy (pp. 99-118). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group: NY.
Hopson, R. (2009) “Oshinglisha oshapi eyi etia teka” English, colonial power, and education int 20th and 21st century Owambo, Namibia. In Brock-Utne, B. & Garbo, G. (Eds.). Language and power: Implications of language for peace and development. Dar es Salaam/Oxford: Mkuki na Nyota/ABC.
Brown, L, Kouyate, M., & Hopson, R. (2009). Making so big a dream near and dear to all African American males. In Frierson, H. & J. H. Wyche (Eds.). The Diminishing African American Male in Higher Education (pp. 113-133). Oxford: Emerald.
Hopson, R. (2009). Reclaiming knowledge at the margins: Culturally responsive evaluation in the current evaluation moment. In Ryan, K. & Cousins, B. (Eds.). International Handbook on Evaluation (pp. 431-448). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
