Erin Hopkins

Erin A. Hopkins, PhD, serves as an Associate Professor of Property Management within the School of Design 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 the influence of biophilia access on various stakeholders across the built environment.  She most recently has received the Louise L. and Y.T. Lum Award from the IREM Foundation and Woman of Influence award from the GlobeSt Real Estate Forum.  She sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.