Dana Collins, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology

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Teaching interests: Gender/Sexualities/Queer Studies; Critical Globalizations and Development; Transnational Feminisms and Postcolonial Theory; Gender and Work; Urban Communities Qualitative Research Epistemologies; Human Rights, Militarization, and Sexual Violence.

Research interests: Gender/Sexualities/Queer Studies; Critical Globalizations and Development; Transnational Feminisms and Postcolonial Theory; Gender and Work; Urban Communities Qualitative Research Epistemologies; Human Rights, Militarization, and Sexual Violence.

Brief biography: Dana Collins received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002. She is an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Fullerton. She has been conducting critical ethnographic research in Manila, the Philippines, since 1999, following urban renewal, informal sexual labor and the production of gay urban spaces. She is exploring frameworks for queering human rights and her future research interests lie in the area of militarization, sexual violence and representation in the Congo. Her work appears in two of Gender & Society's special issues 'Gender-Sexuality-State-Nation: Transnational Feminist Analysis' (2005) and 'The Reaches of Heteronormativity' (2009), and in Tourist Studies (2007) and Signs (1999). She currently serves on the editorial board of Gender & Society.