Christina Collins

Christina Collins holds a joint Ph.D. 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. She is a former Spencer Fellow in Urban Education and was awarded a dissertation writing grant by the Spencer Foundation. From 2006 to 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 taught courses on the history of urban education and urban studies and served as Rutgers’ liaison to American History High School, a public magnet school. In 2008, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she taught graduate courses on the history of urban education. She has also worked as a researcher and policy analyst at the United Federation of Teachers. Her research primarily focuses on the history of education, with an emphasis on the history of urban schools in the twentieth century.