Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins is a sociologist and social theorist whose scholarship examines race, gender, social class, sexuality, and nation. She is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emerita of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. In 2009, she became the first African American woman to serve as president of the American Sociological Association.

Collins is the author of Black Feminist Thought, Black Sexual Politics, Fighting Words, From Black Power to Hip Hop, On Intellectual Activism, Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory, and Another Kind of Public Education, which explores the connections among race, education, media, and democratic possibility.