Erin Hopkins

Erin A. Hopkins, PhD, serves as an Associate Professor of Property Management within the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, where she teaches courses in property management operations and sustainable property management.  She has been awarded Virginia Tech’s Teacher of the Week and has received recognition in Virginia Tech’s “Thank a Teacher” program multiple times.

Her research interests include how green building policy impacts the environmental, social, and economic spheres of sustainability as well as how contemplative practices can be used in higher education and industry to cultivate mindfulness.  She most recently has received the Woman of Influence award from the GlobeSt Real Estate Forum and Best Paper award in housing and interior design from the Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal.  She sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, and currently serves on IREM Foundation’s Board of Directors, IREM’s ESG Advisory Council, and is an executive committee member for the Contemplative Higher Education Alliance for Research, Teaching & Service.