She continued on to become the Director of the Africana Center at Tufts University until 1980, after which she completed her doctorate in sociology back at Brandeis in 1984. From 1970 to 1976, she was a teacher and curriculum specialist at St Joseph Community School, among two others, in Boston. The only daughter of a factory worker and a secretary, Collins attended the Philadelphia public schools.Īfter obtaining her bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 1969, she continued on to earn a Master of Arts Degree in Teaching from Harvard University in 1970. She first came to national attention for her book Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment, originally published in 1990.Ĭollins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1948.
She is also the former head of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati, and the past President of the American Sociological Association Council.Ĭollins' work primarily concerns issues involving feminism and gender within the African-American community. Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is currently a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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