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Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. [1] She is also the former head of the Department of African-American Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
Patricia Hill Collins Distinguished University Professor Emerita. Biography. Professor Collins is a social theorist whose research and scholarship have examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation.
Jun 18, 2019 · Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an active American sociologist known for her research and theory that sits at the intersection of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nationality. She served in 2009 as the 100th president of the American Sociological Association (ASA) — the first African American woman elected to this ...
Oct 25, 2023 · Sociologist Patricia Hills Collins won the $1 million Berggruen Philosophy Prize for her decades of work.
Patricia Hill Collins is principally concerned with the relationships among empowerment, self-definition, and knowledge; and she is obviously concerned with black women: it is the oppression with which she is most intimately familiar.
The American sociologist Patricia Hill Collins, in her book Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990), proposed a form of standpoint theory that emphasized the perspective of African American women.
Patricia Hill Collins, ’69, PhD ’84, is an eminent scholar and Brandeis alumna who has dedicated her career to understanding the intersections of race, gender and class. Collins is the author of seven books, including the seminal "Black Feminist Thought," and is currently a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University ...
4 days ago · Patricia Hill Collins, the Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor of Sociology within the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati, is a social theorist whose research and scholarship examine issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation.
In 2005, Patricia Hill Collins joined the University of Maryland where she was the Wilson Elkins Professor of Sociology 2005-2006 and is currently Distinguished University Professor. In her new location, she is working with graduate students in race, feminist scholarship, and sociological theory.
Oct 23, 2023 · Recognized for her groundbreaking work in sociology, Patricia Hill Collins has developed a new vision and vocabulary for injustice and oppression, challenging intellectual norms, and calling for deeper exchange between theory and activism.
