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Hopkins, June, Ph.D.

June Hopkins, Ph.D. was Professor of History at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA from 1998 until her retirement in 2016. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, her M.P.A. from Pace University, her M.A. from California State University, Northridge, and her Ph.D. from Georgetown University. She specializes in U.S. social history with emphasis on welfare history, the Great Depression, and the New Deal. Her book, entitled Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer, was published in February 1999. “Jewish, First Wife, Divorced”: The Correspondence of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins, a joint project with Allison Giffen, Assistant Professor of American Literature at New Mexico State University, was published in January 2003. In 2020, June Hopkins was elected to membership in the National Academy of Social Insurance.