Ann Collins, Ph.D.

Education:
Ph.D., Washington University, Political Science
M.A., Washington University, Political Science
M.A., Louisiana State University, American & Latin American History
B.A., Texas State University, International Studies

Research Interests:
American politics, collective violence, race riots

Recent Conferences:
Panel Organizer/Presenter. "'What the Hell Are You Fellows Afraid of?  Women Want Protection': American Race Riots from the Progressive Era Through World War II," at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2-5, 2009, Chicago, Illinois

Participant. “American Empire & the Exportation of Democracy,” Midwest Faculty Seminar, October 30-November 1, 2008, Chicago, Illinois

Chair/Organizer. “Race Relations in the United States: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, March 12-15, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada

Participant. “US or US and Them: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Next U.S Presidency,” National Conference of the World Affairs Council, February 6-8, 2008, Washington, D.C.

Presenter. “‘The Bodies of all the Negros Were Dressed in Soldiers’ Clothes’: American Race Riots and African American Servicemen,” at the Mid-America Conference on History, September 27-29, 2007, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Presenter. “‘To Choke the Cape Fear River with Carcasses’: A Comparative Analysis of American Race Riots from the Progressive Era through World War II,” at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, March 14-17, 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Publications:
“Red Summer Race Riots” in Leslie Alexander and Walter Rucker, eds., Encyclopedia of African American History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO (forthcoming).

Review of Frymer, Paul. Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007, in The Journal of Politics, 71 (January 2009): 353-354.

“Beaumont (Texas) Riot of 1943," pp. 29-30, in Walter Rucker and James Upton, eds., Encyclopedia of American Race Riots. Vol. 1. Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.

“Greenwood Community (Tulsa, Oklahoma),” pp. 260-261, in Walter Rucker and James Upton, eds., Encyclopedia of American Race Riots. Vol. 1. Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.

“Knoxville (Tennessee) Riot of 1919," pp. 346-348, in Walter Rucker and James Upton, eds., Encyclopedia of American Race Riots. Vol. 1. Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.

“New Orleans (Louisiana) Riot of 1900," pp. 459-461, in Walter Rucker and James Upton, eds., Encyclopedia of American Race Riots. Vol. 2. Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.

“New York City of 1900,” pp. 474-476, in Walter Rucker and James Upton, eds., Encyclopedia of American Race Riots. Vol. 2. Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.

Organizations:
American Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association
Southwestern Social Science Association
World Affairs Council-St. Louis

Honor Societies:
Alpha Chi
Golden Key
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Eta Sigma (McKendree University chapter advisor)
Phi Kappa Phi (McKendree University chapter vice president, April 2009-present)
Pi Sigma Alpha (McKendree University chapter advisor)
Sigma Iota Rho