Patricia hill collins biography templates

African-American scholar (born 1948)

Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender.

Patricia hill collins biography templates

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.

Collins was elected president of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and served in 2009 as the 100th president of the association – the first African-American woman to hold this position.^[2]

Collins's work primarily concerns issues involving race, gender, and social inequality within the African-American community.

She gained national attention for her book Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990.^[3]

Family background

Patricia Hill Collins was born on May 1, 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only child of two parents living in a predo