The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series --- Patricia Hill Collins Reimagining community: intersectionality and participatory democracy

Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emerita of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Her books include Black Feminist Thought (1990, 2000, 2022); Fighting Words (1998); Black Sexual Politics (2004); From Black Power to Hip Hop (2005); Intersectionality (2016; 2020, co-authored with Sirma Bilge); Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (2019), and Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence (2024). Her anthology Race, Class, and Gender: Intersections and Inequalities, 11th ed. (2024), edited with Margaret Andersen, has been widely used for over 30 years in over 200 colleges and universities. Her books and articles have been translated into Portuguese, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Romanian, French, Spanish, and Turkish.

Professor Collins has held editorial positions with professional journals, lectured widely in the United States and internationally, served in many capacities in professional organisations, and has acted as consultant for community organisations.

In 2008, she became the 100th President of the American Sociological Association, the first African American woman elected to this position in the organisation's 104-year history.

In 2022, she was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, an award given annually to an individual whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world.

Doors open at 5.30pm.