John Collins, Ph. D.

An original member of the Global Studies department, I retired from the university in August 2024 and am currently the Editorial Director at Weave News, the grassroots journalism organization I founded with my students in 2006.

As a scholar, I am the author of Occupied By Memory, a 2004 book on memories of the first Palestinian intifada, and in 2012 I published Global Palestine (available in the US from Oxford University Press and in the UK from Hurst), which uses the category of settler colonialism to explore the globalization of Palestine and the Palestinization of the globe. In 2021 the University of Georgia Press published Globalizing Collateral Language: From 9/11 to Endless War (co-edited with Somdeep Sen), which is a follow-up to the original Collateral Language book I co-edited back in 2002. I also co-authored Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies (Routledge, 2017) with Eve Stoddard, Emerita Professor of Global Studies.

In my spare time, I sing and play guitar in an indie rock band called Bee Children. We released our third album, You Are the Host Now, in May 2023.