Christopher S. Collins

Christopher S. Collins studies the function of organizations in society and the production of knowledge in diverse and global settings. In collaboration with people around the world he has worked on studies of the World Bank and poverty reduction, the social value of higher education in the Asia Pacific region, and Indigenous knowledges in Hawai‘i. As a faculty member he has worked with doctoral students to think deeply about cognitive justice and the interdependence and ecology of knowledges. He has completed more than fifty scholarly products (books, journal articles, and chapters), including his latest book, Global White Supremacy: Anti-Blackness and the University as Colonizer (Rutgers University Press, 2023), coauthored with Christopher B. Newman and Alexander Jun. He earned a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, but learned much more from teachers, mentors, friends, and guides who did not offer course credit or diplomas.