Kelly Hopkins
Assistant Professor
Phone: (713) 743-3767
Email: kyhopkins@uh.edu
Office: 527 Agnes Arnold Hall
Kelly Hopkins is an Assistant Professor of Early American history. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis and her M.A. at the University of Akron. Her research interests include the fields of Native American, British and French Colonial American history, environmental history and Atlantic world history. In her research and teaching, she investigates the experiences and legacies of the interactions between European colonists and Native Americans.
Teaching
Professor Hopkins regularly teaches the American History survey to 1877 and undergraduate courses on Colonial North America, the American Revolution, and Native North America, as well as graduate reading seminars in Early North America. She has been an active participant in professional and university pedagogical initiatives to improve undergraduate education and student success.
Research
Hopkins’s first book, Iroquoia: Haudenosaunee Life and Culture, 1630-1783 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2025) highlights the innovative survivance strategies of the Haudenosaunee peoples in retaining sovereignty over their homelands through seven generations of social and environmental change following European contact and the settler invasion. Her research has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship.
Iroquoia: Haudenosaunee Life and Culture, 1630-1783
