Kathleen Collins, assistant professor of government and international studies at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver a lecture titled 鈥淧romoting Security in Central Asia鈥� at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 22) in Room C-103 of the Hesburgh Center for International 91视频 on campus.p. A faculty fellow in Notre Dame鈥檚 Kellogg Institute for International 91视频 and Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频, Collins earned her bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degrees from Notre Dame and her doctoral degree from Stanford University. She completed post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University鈥檚 Davis Center for Russian 91视频 and at the Kellogg Institute.p. Collins鈥� current projects include a book manuscript titled 鈥淐lans, Pacts and Politics: Regime Transformation in Central Asia,鈥� based on her doctoral dissertation, which received the S.M. Lipset Prize for the Best Comparative Politics Dissertation in 2000.p. Collins specializes in the politics of the former Soviet Union, particularly in Central Asia and the Caucasus. She also focuses on the politics of ethnic and Islamic identities and the roles of ethnicity and Islam in civil conflict.
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