Dwight N. Hopkins is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor at the University of Chicago, with an office in the Divinity School. He researches the following theme. Faith + Wealth = Freedom as a practical way to broaden participation in material and spiritual resources. This has been a thread in his journey. Wealth means family ownership of earth, air, and water for at least three generations.
Hopkins seeks to help young people realize their dreams by accumulating wealth through innovations in education technology.
Some of his courses include: three classes on black ownership of wealth from 1619 to today; social entrepreneurship; can capitalism do good?; wealth and theology in the Third World; wealth for working class blacks in black theology (1st & 2nd generations); and contemporary models of theology.
Hopkins studied at Groton School (an all-boys boarding school); Harvard University; Union Theological Seminary (New York City); and the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Also, he has taken classes at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University).
He is the descendent of 5 prior Hopkins generations of family businessmen and Christians born in Virginia.
