Professor Patricia Collins Receives W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award

Professor Collins is a social theorist whose research and scholarship have examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation. Professor Collins’s current research interests lie in the following sociology of knowledge projects: 

• Analyzing how race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation and/or age mutually construct one another as systems of power and as theoretical constructs;
• Exploring epistemologies of emancipatory knowledges, for example, critical race theory, nationalism and feminism;
• Examining how African American male and female youth's experiences with social issues of education, unemployment, popular culture and political activism articulate with global phenomena, specifically, complex social inequalities, global capitalist development, transnationalism, and political activism.

The award's namesake, scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois, became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Du Bois wrote extensively and was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. He also co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.

Learn more about Professor Collin's research by visiting her official faculty profile here. Join us in congratulating Professor Collins on being recognized for such tremendous contributions to the field of sociology.