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Rodney Hopson, Ph.D.

Acting Co-Dean and Professor
American University, United States

Rodney Hopson, PhD is an accomplished scholar, academic leader and thought partner who serves as Acting Co-Dean and Professor, School of Education. Most recently, Hopson served as Professor of Evaluation in the Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education, with appointments in the Department of Educational Policy and Organizational Leadership and the Center of African Studies at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign.

Hopson received his doctorate from the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, with major concentrations in educational evaluation, anthropology, and policy, and sociolinguistics. He was awarded a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH) postdoctoral fellowship at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Hopson is an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellow, and has affiliated previously in the Faculty of Education, University of Namibia as a JW Fulbright Scholar and the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University (UK). Currently he is affiliated with the School of Health, Victoria University-Wellington (Aotearoa New Zealand), is Editor of the Studies in Educational Ethnography Book Series, Emerald Publishers, and Co-Editor of Educational Policy as/in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies, Information Age Book Series.

Hopson has co-authored and co-edited 10 books, including Culturally responsive inquiry in education: Improving research, evaluation, and assessment (Harvard Education Press, 2022), Tackling wicked problems in complex ecologies: The role of evaluation (Stanford University Press, 2018), New directions in educational ethnography: Shifts, problems, reconstruction (Emerald, 2016), Power, voice, and the public good: Schooling and education in global societies (Elsevier, 2008), and others. Most notably, he is the founding Program Director of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program, a program in its 21st year that supports graduate students of color from traditionally underrepresented communities to embed culturally responsive evaluation approaches and practices in their yearlong training, current academic studies, and future career.

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