Raymond F. Hopkins
Encyclopedia
Raymond F. Hopkins is an American
political science
professor
and expert on food politics
and food policy
. Hopkins taught at Swarthmore College
from 1967 until his retirement in 2007, where he was the Richter Professor of Political Science.
Hopkins's research interests range from international organization
s, economic development
, and political economy
to all aspects of food politics and food policy including food supply, security
, and aid as well as hunger
/famine
and agricultural policy
.
in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts
degree
in philosophy
. He attended Yale Divinity School
and studied theology
in 1961 but soon left to attend Ohio State University
where he received his Master of Arts
in political science in 1963. Hopkins later returned to Yale University
, where he received another Master of Arts and his Ph.D.
in political science in 1968.
Hopkins taught at Swarthmore from 1967 until his retirement in 2007. He was made a full professor in 1978 and was made the Richter Professor of Political Science in 1995. Hopkins was chair of the political science department at Swarthmore from 1983 to 1984 and from 1997 to 2000, and the director of the public policy
program from 1989 to 1996.
Hopkins is married, has two grown children, and lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
.
Visiting professorships:
Congressional testimony:
Research and professional service:
Consultancies:
Fellowship
s/grants
:
Honors:
United States
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political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
and expert on food politics
Food politics
Food politics are the political aspects of the production, control, regulation, inspection and distribution of food. The politics can be affected by the ethical, cultural, medical and environmental disputes concerning proper farming, agricultural and retailing methods and...
and food policy
Food policy
Food policy is an area of public policy concerning the production, distribution, and consumption of food. The policy consists of setting goals for food production, processing, marketing, availability, access, utilization and consumption, and describes the processes for achieving these goals...
. Hopkins taught at Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....
from 1967 until his retirement in 2007, where he was the Richter Professor of Political Science.
Hopkins's research interests range from international organization
International organization
An intergovernmental organization, sometimes rendered as an international governmental organization and both abbreviated as IGO, is an organization composed primarily of sovereign states , or of other intergovernmental organizations...
s, economic development
Economic development
Economic development generally refers to the sustained, concerted actions of policymakers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area...
, and political economy
Political economy
Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...
to all aspects of food politics and food policy including food supply, security
Food security
Food security refers to the availability of food and one's access to it. A household is considered food-secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. According to the World Resources Institute, global per capita food production has been increasing substantially for the past...
, and aid as well as hunger
Hunger
Hunger is the most commonly used term to describe the social condition of people who frequently experience the physical sensation of desiring food.-Malnutrition, famine, starvation:...
/famine
Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including crop failure, overpopulation, or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality. Every continent in the world has...
and agricultural policy
Agricultural policy
Agricultural policy describes a set of laws relating to domestic agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural products. Governments usually implement agricultural policies with the goal of achieving a specific outcome in the domestic agricultural product markets...
.
Biography
Hopkins graduated from Ohio Wesleyan UniversityOhio Wesleyan University
Ohio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges...
in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
degree
Academic degree
An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...
in philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
. He attended Yale Divinity School
Yale Divinity School
Yale Divinity School is a professional school at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. preparing students for ordained or lay ministry, or for the academy...
and studied theology
Theology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
in 1961 but soon left to attend Ohio State University
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
where he received his Master of Arts
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
in political science in 1963. Hopkins later returned to Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, where he received another Master of Arts and his Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
in political science in 1968.
Hopkins taught at Swarthmore from 1967 until his retirement in 2007. He was made a full professor in 1978 and was made the Richter Professor of Political Science in 1995. Hopkins was chair of the political science department at Swarthmore from 1983 to 1984 and from 1997 to 2000, and the director of the public policy
Public policy
Public policy as government action is generally the principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. In general, the foundation is the pertinent national and...
program from 1989 to 1996.
Hopkins is married, has two grown children, and lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Swarthmore is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Swarthmore was originally named Westdale in honor of noted painter Benjamin West, who was one of the early residents of the town. The name was changed to Swarthmore after the establishment of Swarthmore College...
.
Former positions and activities
Positions:- 2000-2001: Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, Swarthmore College
- 1998-1999: Visiting ScholarVisiting scholarIn the world of academia, a visiting scholar or visiting academic is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university, where he or she is projected to teach , lecture , or perform research on a topic the visitor is valued for...
, Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs - 1989-1996: Director, Public Policy Program, Swarthmore College
- 1987-1990: Chair, Department of Political Science, Swarthmore College
- 1984-1988: Director, Food Policy Program
- 1984-1985: Visiting Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
- 1983-1984: Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, Swarthmore College
- 1982-1983: Visiting Scholar, Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- 1975: Research Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
- 1974-1975: Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
- 1973-1974: Director, Center for Social and Policy Studies
- 1971: Research Associate, University of Nairobi, Kenya
- 1970-1971: Visiting Research Associate, Indiana University
- 1969: Research Associate, Summer, Harvard University, Center for International Affairs
- 1968: Visiting Scholar, Summer, University of Michigan
- 1965-1966: Research Associate, University College, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- 1964: Summer, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency--Special Study on Europe directed by Karl Deutsch
- 1963: Summer, Special study of Federal Reserve System, commissioned by Hon. Wright Patman, directed by *Harvey Mansfield
- 1962: Intern, Summer, Ohio Democratic Headquarters, work on Governor DiSalle's re-election campaign
- 1960-1961: Assistant Pastor, Newfield Methodist Church; Aide, Yale Psychiatric Institute
Visiting professorships:
- Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1976, 1977, 1979.
- Visiting Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, 1980.
- Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1985.
- Visiting Fulbright Distinguished Chair in International Economics, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy, 1995.
Congressional testimony:
- House Committee on Foreign AffairsUnited States House Committee on International RelationsThe Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, also known as the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives which has jurisdiction over bills and investigations related to the foreign affairs of the United States...
, Subcommittee on Africa, 1986. - House Committee on Science, Space and TechnologyUnited States House Committee on ScienceThe Committee on Science, Space and Technology is a committee of the United States House of Representatives. It has jurisdiction over non-defense federal scientific research and development...
, Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agricultural Research and Environment, 1989. - House Select Committee on Hunger, "Restructuring Food Aid: Time for a Change?" Hearing held in Washington, D.C., June 22, 1989, Serial No. 101-9 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989).
- House Committee on Foreign AffairsUnited States House Committee on International RelationsThe Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, also known as the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives which has jurisdiction over bills and investigations related to the foreign affairs of the United States...
, Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, "Improving Food Aid: The Rationale for Reform in PL480," Washington, D.C., April 18, 1990.
Research and professional service:
- Board of Editors, Simulation & Games, 1977-1980
- Board of Editors, Comparative Strategy, 1979-1987
- Board of Editors, International Political Economy Yearbook, 1984-2000
Consultancies:
- U.S. State Department, 1977-78
- U.S. Agency for International Development, 1979-83, 1988-94
- World Food Programme (Rome), 1985-86, 1990-91, 1994-96
- Food and Agricultural Organization (Rome), 1983-87
- World Bank, 1988-1992
- CARE, 1979, 1993, 2000
Fellowship
Fellow
A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...
s/grants
Grant (money)
Grants are funds disbursed by one party , often a Government Department, Corporation, Foundation or Trust, to a recipient, often a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual. In order to receive a grant, some form of "Grant Writing" often referred to as either a proposal...
:
- National Defense Education Fellow (1961-63)
- Yale International Relations Grant
- Danforth Teaching Intern (1963-67)
- Foreign Area Fellow (1965-67)
- Social Science Research Council (1969)
- The American Philosophical Society (1971)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (1973)
- Guggenheim Fellow (1974)
- Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1975)
- Rockefeller Fellow in International Conflict (1979)
- Heinz Endowment (1982)
- German Marshall Fund Fellow (1986)
- Pew Faculty Fellowship, Harvard (1993)
- Fulbright Fellowship (1995 - Italy: Distinguished Chair, International Economics)
- Lang Faculty Fellowship (1998-99)
Honors:
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Pi Sigma AlphaPi sigma alphaPi Sigma Alpha , the National Political Science Honor Society, is the only honor society for college and university students of political science in the United States. Its purpose is to recognize and promote high academic achievement in the field of political science...
- Distinction on Ph.D. dissertation
- Executive Committee, American Political Science Association, 1992-1994
- Executive Committee, IO Section, International Studies Association, 1993-1996