Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins 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. 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.

1 May 1948

Born on the same birth day (1 May): Ajith Kumar • Alexey Smertin • Emily Stowe • Evelyn Boyd Granville • Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen • Johann Jakob Balmer • Joshua Rowley • Judith Sargent Murray • May 1 • May Hollinworth • Mohammed Karim Lamrani • Morris Kline • Olaf Thon • Otto Kretschmer • Park Hae-jin • Ramzi bin al-Shibh • Romaine Brooks • Scooter Gennett

Born in the same month (May 1948): Bob Woolmer • Calvin Murphy • Dick Gaughan • Emma Rothschild • Grace Jones • Joe Bonsall • Kate Bornstein • Klaus Meine • Leo Sayer • Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart • Myriam Boyer • Pam Ferris • Pete Sears • Richard Swedberg • Stevie Nicks • Svetlana Alexievich • Yi Munyeol