Lauren听Collins
- Program Director and Teaching Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
- CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES
Education
Ph.D., Higher Education, University of Denver, 2019
M.A., China Studies, University of Washington
B.A., International Affairs, University of Colorado
Research Interests
International Development;听Critical Globalization Studies;听Community Engagement; Power; Global Asias
Regional and Thematic Interests
Southeast Asia; East Asia; Pedagogy - High Impact Practices
Profile
Dr. Collins is a scholar whose work explores memory politics in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Americas. At CU 抖阴传媒在线, she oversees the curricular aspects of the Asian Studies program, teaching lecture courses that introduce students to this incredibly diverse region and in-depth seminars that explore topics such as urbanization, U.S. China relations, and the politics of memory. Lauren also enthusiastically advises students interested in conducting their own research on various aspects of culture, history, and politics in Asia, broadly construed.
Selected Publications
2025. Collins,听Lauren. 鈥淎rchives As Bridges: Connecting Students to听Asia鈥檚 Histories鈥. Transnational听Asia, vol. 7, no. 1, Oct. 2025, doi:10.25615/ta.v7i1.113
2023. Collins, L. Students as Partners in Faculty-Led Study Abroad: Teaching Taiwan in 2023.听Education About Asia, 28(3), 7-14.
2023. Barkin, G., & Collins,听L. Assessing Study Abroad: Rubric Shopping, Managerialism, and Audit Culture at the Neoliberal University.听Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad,听35(1), 52鈥81.听听
2022. Collins, L. Independent Cinema as a Lens on a Changing Cambodia: Using the Films of Anti-Archive in the Classroom.听Education About Asia,听27(3), 54-57.
2022. Collins, L. Leveraging Foreign Higher Education Institutional Affiliation to Support Preservation of Local Knowledge and Fight Displacement in Thailand.听Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad,听34(3), 123鈥140.听
2021. Collins, L. Offering space at the table: the work of hosting U.S. study abroad students in Northern Thailand.听Third World Quarterly, 42:8, 1849-1865.
2019. Collins, L. 听Letting the village be the teacher: a look at community-based learning in Northern Thailand.听Journal of Teaching in Higher Education, 24(5), 694-708.听
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