Is the recipient of the St. Clair Wright Endowed Scholarship and the Bode-Wise Fellowship at the University of Maryland. Before pursuing her doctorate she earned a Bachelors in History from Texas Christian University in 2006 and a Masters in American Studies from the University of Alabama in 2008.

Portia Hopkins gave four lectures as a Scholar-in-Residence 2014 & 2015 on her research on Historic Preservation.

Dangerous Ground:  Assessing the Destruction of African American History in Texas’ Textbooks  

Staying Power: Fighting for Social Justice in Freedmen’s Town

Breaking Through the Margins: Tactics of Historic Preservation in Communities of Color

Liberating Voices: Pushing Sociopolitical Boundaries through Historic Preservation