OBITUARY

Terence Kilbourne Hopkins died on Jan. 3, 1997, peacefully, at Lourdes Hospital, Binghamton, NY. He was 68 years of age. The cause of death was cancer. He had a brilliant career as a scholar. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University. He taught at Columbia from 1958-68. He was a visiting professor at the University of the West Indies, in Trinidad, from 1968-70. He came to Binghamton University in 1970 to found its graduate program in sociology, retiring in 1995. It was an exceptional program in terms both of its intellectual breadth, with its special emphasis on world-historical change, and of the space it offered students to become autonomous scholars, attracting students from across the globe. He was a founding figure in world-systems analysis, and of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. He was considered the specialist in the field on all methodological questions. He was beloved by his students far above the norm. He leaves his wife, Gloria N. Hopkins.

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