Christina Collins

Lecturer on Education
Harvard Postdoctoral Fellow on Education

Profile

Christina Collins is a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She holds a joint doctorate in History and Education and a graduate certificate in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in History from the College of New Jersey. Her research primarily focuses on the history of education, with a particular emphasis on the history of urban schools in the twentieth century.

In 2006, she completed a dissertation titled Ethnically Qualified: A History of New York City Teachers, 1920-1980, which examines the impact of institutional discrimination on ethnic diversity among urban teachers. From 2006-2008, she served as the Geraldine R. Dodge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University-Newark, where she wrote and directed a documentary film about young people’s experiences during the Newark riots of 1967, taught courses in the history of urban education and urban studies, and served as Rutgers’ liaison to American History High School, a public magnet school. Her next project will focus on how schools of education in urban universities dealt with issues of urban schooling in the twentieth century.

Degrees

• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania