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Patricia Hill Collins

パトリシア・コリンズ　/　ぱとりしあ・こりんず

American philosopher

May 1, 1948 (age 78)　・　Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Pennsylvania
philosopher
sociologist
university teacher

My Take

To me, Patricia Hill Collins is one of those thinkers whose influence is so absorbed into common vocabulary that people forget it had an author. Helping make intersectionality a rigorous social theory, rather than a slogan, is quietly monumental work. What I admire most is that she never treats scholarship as an end in itself; her idea of intellectual activism insists that ideas owe something back to the communities they describe. A Philadelphia-born professor who reached Harvard, the Berggruen Prize, and emerita status at Maryland could rest on prestige, but she keeps the human stakes in view. That seriousness, paired with clarity, is rare and worth honoring.

Overview

Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the former head of the Department of African-American Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Patricia Hill Collins
Name (Japanese): パトリシア・コリンズ
Reading: ぱとりしあ・こりんず
Born: May 1, 1948 (age 78)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Taurus / Rat
Origin: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: philosopher / sociologist / university teacher / researcher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Philadelphia High School for Girls
University: Harvard University

Awards & achievements

1993 Jessie Bernard Award
2017 W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship award
American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
2022 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2013 Gittler Prize
Berggruen Prize

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	Black Feminist Thought	—
Notable work	Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory	—
Notable work	Black Sexual Politics	—
Notable work	From Black Power to Hip Hop	—
Notable work	On Intellectual Activism	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA

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