Patricia Hill Collins

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.

Her first book, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment won the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association for significant scholarship in gender. Her second book, Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, edited with Margaret Andersen, is used in undergraduate classrooms in over 200 colleges and universities. Her other books include Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism, Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice, and On Intellectual Activism.

Collins, the first African American woman elected to the presidency of the American Sociological Association, has published articles and held editorial positions in an array of professional journals, taught at several institutions, lectured widely in the United States and abroad, and consulted with community organizations.