Courses Taught (selected)
Qualitative Research Methods I and II
Introduction to Program Evaluation
Educational Language Politics and Policies 
Historical, Philosophical, Sociological Foundations of Education

Research Interests
Ethnographic Evaluation
Sociolinguistics
Social Politics and Policy
Foundations of Education

Books
Brock-Utne, B. & Hopson, R. (Eds.).  (2005).  Languages of instruction for African emancipation:  Focus on postcolonial contexts and considerations.  Cape Town/Dar es Salaam:  The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society/Mkuki na Nyota.

Hood, S., Hopson, R., & Frierson, H. (Eds.) (2005).  The role of culture and cultural context: A mandate for inclusion, the discovery of truth, and understanding in evaluative theory and practice.  Greenwich, CT:  Information Age.

Edited journals
Thompson-Robinson, M., Hopson, R., & SenGupta, S. (Eds.). (2004).  In search of cultural competence in evaluation:  Toward principles and practices.  New Directions for Evaluation.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.

Hopson, R.K., Ed.  (2000). How and Why Language Matters in Evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation, No. 86.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.

Journal Articles (selected)
Mertens, D. M. & Hopson, R. K. (2006).  Advancing evaluation of STEM efforts through attention to diversity and culture.  In D. Huffman & F. Lawrenz (Eds.). Critical issues in STEM evaluation (pp. 35-51).  New Directions for Evaluation, 109, Spring.

Hopson, R. (2005).  Commentary:  Reinventing Evaluation.  Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 36(3).

SenGupta, S., Hopson, R., & Thompson-Robinson, M.  (2004).  Cultural competence in evaluation:  An overview.  In M. Thompson-Robinson, R. Hopson, & S. SenGupta, (Eds.), In search of cultural competence in evaluation:  Toward principles and practices.  New Directions for Evaluation. (p. 5-18). San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.

Hopson, R.K. (2003).  “The Problem of the Language Line:  Cultural and social reproduction of hegemonic linguistic structures for learners of African descent in the United States.”  Race, Ethnicity, & Education, 6(3), 227-245.

Other Publications (selected)
Hopson, R..K., Greene, J.C., Bledsoe, K.L., Villegas, T.M., Brown, T.A. (in press).  A vision for urban educational evaluation.  W. T. Pink & G.W. Noblit, (Eds.), The International Handbook on Urban Education.  Dordrecht, Netherlands:  Springer.

Collins, P. & Hopson, R. (2007).  Building Leadership Development, Social Justice, and Social Change in Evaluation Through a Pipeline Program.   In Hannum, K., Martineau, J.W., & Reinelt, C.  (Eds.)., The Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation (pp. 173-198).  San Francisco, CA:  Jossey-Bass.

Hopson, R.K. (2005).  Child  protection and survival in southern Africa:  Focus on Child welfare policy in Namibia.  C.C. Yeakey, T.A. Reed, & J.W. Richardson, Eds.  Suffer the Little Children:  National and International Dimensions of Child Poverty and Policy.  (pp. 307-334). Oxford:  Elsevier.

Greene, J., Millet, R., & Hopson, R. (2004).  “Evaluation as Democratizing Practice”.  In M. Braverman, N. Constantine, & J.K. Slater (Eds.) Putting evaluation to work for foundations and grantees. (pp. 96-118). San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.

Conferences and Invited Presentations (selected)
Hopson, R.K. (2006). Uncovering and countering hegemony through culturally responsive evaluation: Post NCLB, 9/11, and Katrina reflections. Paper presented at the Henry Cornwell Distinguished Scholar Lecture, Lincoln University, Oxford, PA.

Hopson, R.K. (2006). Whose Language? Whose Education?: Comparative Implications and Insights on Globalization, Colonialism, and Hegemony in the 21st Century. Paper presented at the Wilma Koetter Memorial Lecture, Washington University – St. Louis. St. Louis, MO.

Hopson, R.K. (2006). Reconstructing ethnography, reconstructing colonialism: Revisiting the language question in 21st century Namibian schooling. Paper presented at Oxford Ethnography Conference, Oxford, UK.

Hopson, R. K. (2006). Caught between a rock and a hard place: Ju|'hoan Education and language development in post-colonial, English only Namibia, 1990-2005. Paper presented at the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics.

Hopson, R. K. (2006). Official education, official language:  studies of colonialism in 21st century school. Paper presented at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Education and Social Research Institute.

McCown, R. R., Driscoll, M. P., Hopson, R. K., & Welch, O. M. (2006). How teacher education has been framed and can be reframed. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

Funded research/training
Hopson, R.K. & Torres, R.T. (2006). Building STEM Education and Evaluation Capacity through Research on Logic Model Use. Arlington,VA: National Science Foundation. (Funded, $862,846)

Hopson, R.K. (2005).  Building Pipelines, Developing Leadership.  National Science Foundation.  (Funded:  $49,830)

Hood, S. & Hopson, R.K. (2004).  Preparing a Culturally Diverse and Culturally Responsive Generation of Evaluators:  A Workshop to Design a Proposal for Advanced Training.  National Science Foundation.  (Funded,  $99, 993)

Hopson, R.K.  (2004). Internship Program for Building Diversity.  W.K. Kellogg Foundation.  (Funded, $100, 676)