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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association
  • 2007 - Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association
  • 1990 - C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

Overview

Patricia Hill Collins is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their work primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on gender studies, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, social psychology, and cultural studies. The research topics they cover include gender politics and representation, social policy and reform studies, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, gender, feminism, and media, feminism, gender, and sexuality studies, obesity and health practices, and posthumanist ethics and activism.

Recent publications by Patricia Hill Collins include:

  • "Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory" (2021), published in Contemporary Political Theory
  • "Black Women and Wellness" (2022), published in Women & Therapy
  • "The New Politics of Community Revisited" (2020), published in The Pluralist
  • "INTERSECTIONALITY, EPISTEMIC OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE: AN INTERVIEW WITH PATRÍCIA HILL COLLINS" (2021), published in Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada
  • "A diferença que o poder faz: interseccionalidade e democracia participativa" (2022), published in Sociologias Plurais

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Patricia Hill Collins include:

  • Elaini Cristina Gonzaga da Silva
  • Emek Ergün
  • Inger Furseth
  • Kanisha D. Bond
  • Jone Martínez Palacios

Patricia Hill Collins has published articles in the following venues:

  • Contemporary Political Theory
  • Women & Therapy
  • The Pluralist
  • Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada
  • Sociologias Plurais

The scholar has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association in 2017
  • Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association in 2007
  • C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 1990

Best Publications

  • Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Black Feminist Thought

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology

    Margaret L. Andersen;Patricia Hill Collins

  • It's All In the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Race, class, and gender : an anthology

    Margaret L. Andersen;Patricia Hill Collins

  • Gender, Black Feminism, and Black Political Economy

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Aprendendo com a outsider within: a significação sociológica do pensamento feminista negro

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited": Where's the Power?

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • The meaning of motherhood in Black culture and Black mother/daughter relationships.

    Patricia H. Collins

  • What's in a Name?: Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • toward a new vision : Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities

    Patricia Hill Collins

  • Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory.

    Patricia Hill Collins;Philomena Essed

Frequent Co-Authors

John Solomos
John Solomos University of Warwick
Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding University of California, Los Angeles

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