Kathleen Collins

Political Science Room 1414 SocSci

Department Affiliations

The Logic of Clan Politics: Evidence from the Central Asian Trajectories: Collins, Kathleen A, World Politics, 56 176-190, 2004.
Clan Politics and the Transformation of Regimes in Central Asia. Collins, Kathleen A, Cambridge University Press, Author, February 2006.
Ideas, Networks, and Islamist Movements: Collins, Kathleen A, World Politics, October , 2007.
The Political Role of Clans: Collins, Kathleen A, Comparative Politics, 35, no 2 , January 2003.
Clans, Pacts, and Politics in Central Asia: Collins, Kathleen A, Journal of Democracy, 13, no. 3 , 2002.
“Political and Institutional Constraints and Opportunities for Regional Cooperation”: Collins, Kathleen A, UNDP, Bringing Down the Barriers: Regional Cooperation for Human Development and Human Security, Central Asia Human Development Report 2005, 2005.
“Central Asia: Defying Great Game Expectations”: Collins, Kathleen A, William Wohlforth, Strategic Asia, 2003.
“Tajikistan: Bad Peace Agreements and Prolonged Civil Wars”: Collins, Kathleen A, The Prevention of Violent Conflict, 2003.
“Human Security and Transition in Central Asia”: Collins, Kathleen A, United Nations, Report for the United Nations Commission on Human Security in Central Asia, 2002.

Changing Patterns of Islamic Identity and Political Mobilization in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Book manuscript, in progress

Occasional Advisor: United Nations Development Program, US government, International Crisis Group, National Bureau of Asian Research, and other organizations

Principal Investigator: Civic Involvement of Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Minneapolis, 2007 - 2008
Advisor: Human rights cases

McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, 2007 - 2009
Single Semeser Leave (CLA Award) Fall 2007, Falll 2007
Carnegie Scholar Grant, 2004 - 2007
NCEEER Grant, 2003 - 2005
IREX IARO Grant, 2005 - 2005
United States Institute of Peace Grant, 2004 - 2004
The S.M. Lipset Award for the Best Comparativist Dissertation in Comparative Politics or Sociology (national dissertation award, awarded from the Society for Comparative Research, Yale University), 2000