During the academic year 1981-82 he was a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Graz (Austria); likewise, during the winter semester of 1986-87 he was a visiting professor at the University of Munich. Professor Hopkins is the author or translator of some 24 books in the field of Medieval philosophy. He has held research fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He was elected to membership in the international wissenschaftlicher Beirat of the Cusanus Society in Germany. He is a consulting editor for Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft.
In May, 1990 Hopkins received an Associate of Applied Science degree from the College of St. Catherine/St. Mary's Campus (Minneapolis). He became a registered nurse in the same year and a certified emergency nurse in April, 1992. Thereafter he has also worked in post-coronary care units in telemetry (12-lead EKG monitoring) and in long-term care with patients suffering from head injury and neurological impairments. Not surprisingly, he teaches medical ethics in the Department of Philosophy and is member of the graduate faculty for the minor in biomedical ethics, and has directed dissertations on topics ranging from Heraclitus, to medical ethics, to the hermeneutics of history. Jasper Hopkins's webpage.