Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins
Born	Patricia Hill (1948-05-01) May 1, 1948 (age 76) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse	Roger Collins ​ (m. 1977)​
Children	1 (Valerie Collins)
Academic background
Education	Philadelphia High School for Girls, Brandeis University (BA, PhD) Harvard University (MA)
Thesis	Race, Gender and Labor Market Structure (1983)
Influences	Angela Davis Ida B. Wells-Barnett Pauli Murray Toni Morrison
Academic work
Discipline	African-American studies sociology gender studies
Sub-discipline	Social theory sociology of knowledge
School or tradition	American pragmatism Black feminism feminist sociology
Institutions	University of Cincinnati University of Maryland, College Park
Notable works	Black Feminist Thought (1990)
Notable ideas	Intersectionality, matrix of domination, controlling images

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.^[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]