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Patricia Hill Collins
Distinguished University
Professor
Ph.D.
Sociology, Brandeis University, 1984
Office: 4105 Art-Sociology Building
Phone:
301 405-7707
Email: collinph@umd.edu
Departmental Specialty Areas:
Theory; Gender, Work
and Family; Comparative
Additional
Research Areas:
Racial Theory; Intersectional Theory; Black Feminist
Theory; Sociology of Knowledge
In 2008,
Patricia Hill Collins
served as the 100th President of the American Sociological Association
.
Professor 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, with a revised tenth year anniversary edition
published in 2000, won the Jessie Bernard Award
of the American Sociological Association (ASA)
for significant scholarship in gender, and the
C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study
of Social Problems.
Her
second book, Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology,
6th ed. (2007), edited with Margaret Andersen,
is widely
used
in undergraduate classrooms in over 200 colleges
and universities.
Black Sexual Politics: African
Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
(Routledge, 2004) received
ASA’s 2007 Distinguished
Publication Award. 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 in press for 2005). She has published
many articles in professional journals such as
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Signs, Sociological
Theory, Social Problems, and Black Scholar,
as well as in edited volumes.
Professor Collins
has taught at several institutions, held editorial
positions with professional journals, lectured
widely in the United States and abroad, served
in many capacities in professional organizations,
and has acted as consultant for a number of businesses
and community organizations. She is also Charles
Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor of Sociology within
the Department of African American Studies at
the University of Cincinnati.
Professor Collins’s current research interests lie
in (1) investigating the actual and/or potential
interconnections between critical race theory
and American pragmatism; (2) theorizing intersectionality,
namely, analyzing how race, class, gender, sexuality,
ethnicity and nation mutually construct one another
as concepts and as social phenomena; (3) exploring
epistemologies of emancipatory knowledges, for
example, ideologies of nationalism and feminism
as well as influential knowledges of popular culture
and everyday life; and (4) examining how the status
of Black male and female youth sheds light on
broader social processes such as globalization,
transnationalism, class inequalities, racism and
gender inequities.
Course
Syllabi:
Sociology 498M: Sociology of Black Activism
Sociology 498X: Public Sociology
Sociology 621: Contemporary
Social Theory: Knowledge, Power and Culture
Sociology
622: Sociology of Knowledge
Sociology
729: Intersectionality
Sociology
729B: Critical Theories of Race and Racism
Sociology
729C: Race, Gender, and Nationalism
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