 Distinguished University Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland/College Park, September, 2005-present
Charles Phelps Taft Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Cincinnati, July 5, 2005-present
Ph.D., Sociology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
M.A.T., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
B.A., Sociology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Research and Scholarship
Patricia Hill Collins is a social theorist whose research and scholarship have examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation. Her first book, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, published in 1990, won multiple awards and quickly became a classic and a critical text for feminists and womanists scholars and activists. The book won the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for significant scholarship in gender, the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Association for Women in Psychology, distinguished publication award, and the Association of Black Women Historians’ Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize. A revised tenth anniversary edition of the book was published in 2000.
Dr. Collins’ volume, Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, co-edited with Margaret Andersen, now in its 6th edition, is used in over 200 colleges and universities. Dr Collins is the 2007 recipient of the ASA Distinguished Book Award for Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (Routledge, 2004). Her other books include, Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (University of Minnesota Press, 1998); and From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (Temple University Press, 2006).
A public intellectual, Dr. Collins is of one of the most sought after speakers by colleges and universities throughout the country. This is due in no small measure to her incisive and historically grounded analysis of how of race, class and gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nation mutually construct each other.
Dr. Collins’ scholarship crosses disciplinary and geographical boundaries and has applications to multiple professions. She has been an invited lecturer at the professional meetings of the American Educational Research Association, the British Sociological Association, National Communication Association, the University Council for Educational Administrators, the American Sociological Association, The National Women’s Studies Association and the National Council for Black Studies. She has lectured in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tempere, Finland, Vienna, Austria, Toronto, Canada, and at the London School of Economics. Dr. Collins' work examining how the status of Black male and female youth sheds light on globalization, transnationalism, class inequalities, racism and gender inequities is compelling to scholars and activists in this country and abroad.
Selected Publications
Books
 From Black Power to Hip Hop: Essays on Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2006.
Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies. Edited with John Solomos. Under contract with Sage, London.
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 1990; 2nd edition 2000.
Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, 6th edition. Edited with Margaret Andersen. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1992; 1995; 1998; 2001; 2004; 2007 in production.
Articles in Journals
“New Commodities, New Consumers: African American Youth and Global Capitalism.” Ethnicities, Special edition, “Rethinking Race and Class in a Time of Ethnic Nationalism and ‘The New Imperialism’”, forthcoming.
“Like One of the Family: Race, Ethnicity, and the Paradox of US National Identity.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24 (1), January 2001: 3-28.
“Gender, Black Feminism, and Black Political Economy.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 568 March 2000: 41-53.
“The Tie That Binds: Race, Gender and U.S. Violence.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 21 (5) 1998: 918-38.
“It’s All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation.” Hypatia, Journal of Feminist Philosophy 13 (3) Summer 1998: 62-82.
“Intersections of Race, Class, Gender and Nation: Some Implications for Black Family Studies.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 29 (1) 1998: 27-36.
“African-American Women and Economic Justice: A Preliminary Analysis of Wealth, Family, and Black Social Class.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 65 (2) Spring, 1997: 825-52.
“How Much Difference Is Too Much?: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Postmodern Social Theory.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 17, 1997: 3-37.
“What’s In a Name: Womanism, Black Feminism and Beyond.” Black Scholar 26 (1) March 1996: 9-17.
“Transforming the Inner Circle: Dorothy Smith’s Challenge to Sociological Theory.” Sociological Theory 10 (1) Spring 1992: 73-80.
“The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought.” Signs 14 (4) Summer 1989: 745-73.
Articles in Edited Volumes
“Pushing the Boundaries or Business as Usual? Race, Class, and Gender Studies, Intersectionality, and Sociological Inquiry.” In ASA Centennial volume, History of Sociology, U. of Chicago, in press.
“That’s Not Why I Went to School.” In The Disobedient Generation: ‘68ers and the Transformation of Social Theory, ed. Alan Sica and Steven Turner. Chicago: U. of Chicago, 2005.
“A Telling Difference: Dominance, Strength and Black Masculinities.” In Progressive Black Masculinities, ed. Athena D. Matua. New York: Routledge, in press.
“An Entirely Different World: Rethinking the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.” Pp. 208-222 in Handbook of Sociology, ed. Craig Calhoun, Bryan Turner, Chris Rojek. London: Sage, 2005.
“Black Nationalism and African American Ethnicity: The Case of Afrocentrism as Civil Religion.” Pp. 96-117 in Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Minority Rights, ed. Stephen May, Judith Squires, Tariq Madood. London: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
“Producing the Mothers of the Nation: Race, Class and Contemporary U.S. Population Policies.” Pp. 118-29 in Women, Citizenship and Difference, ed. Nira Yuval-Davis. London: Zed Books, 1999.
“Moving Beyond Gender: Intersectionality and Scientific Knowledge.” Pp. 261-84 in Revisioning Gender, ed. Judith Lorber, Myra Marx Ferree, and Beth Hess. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1999.
“Will the ‘Real’ Mother Please Stand Up? The Logic of Eugenics and American National Family Planning.” Pp. 266-82 in Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, ed. Adele Clarke and Virginia Olesen. New York: Routledge, 1999.
“Is the Personal Political Enough? African-American Women and Feminist Praxis.” Pp. 67-91 in Rassismen & Feminismen, ed. Brigitte Fuchs and Gabriele Habinger, Vienna: Promedia (in German), 1996.
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