John
Collins, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, received his Ph.D.
and M.A. in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the
University of Minnesota and his B.A. from Wesleyan University.
He is the co-editor, with Ross Glover, of Collateral
Language: A User's Guide to America's New War and the author
of Occupied
by Memory: The Intifada Generation and the Palestinian State of
Emergency (published in 2002 and 2004, respectively, by
New York University Press). In addition to courses on the Middle
East,
he teaches
thematic and conceptual courses on globalization, nationalism, cultural
studies theory, and mass media criticism. During the Spring 2004
he co-taught, with Patricia
Alden, a special senior
seminar devoted to the work of Edward Said. He is also currently
teaching in the University's First
Year Program.
