Women's Studies Department Faculty

LISA GAIL COLLINS

Visiting Associate Professor
(Associate Professor in Art History and
Africana Studies on the Class of 1951
Chair, Vassar College)

Research and Teaching Interests:

Interdisciplinary African American history, African American visual art and material culture, feminist thought, twentieth-century social and cultural movements in the United States

Publications:

Ms. Collins is author of The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past (Rutgers University Press, 2002) and Art by African-American Artists: Selections from the 20th Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2003). She is also coauthor of African-American Artists, 1929-1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2003) and coeditor of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (Rutgers University Press, 2006). She also served as associate editor for the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd. edition, (Macmillan Reference, 2005). She has received grants from the Ford, Mellon, and Anyone Can Fly foundations.

Women's Studies Teaching:

WMST BC3121 Black Women in America (Spring 2008)

Activist Interests