Dr. Andrea M. Collins is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability (SERS) at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She previously held a SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University.
Dr. Collins researches issues surrounding gender and global environmental politics, with a focus on agriculture, land, and food politics. Her most recent research projects have focused on importance of understanding gender roles and relations in global policy development. Her book Gender and the Global Grab: A Feminist Global Governance Approach (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024) shows how gender norms, biases, and expectations shape land politics at different levels of governance and the implications for women in rural communities. The book assesses guidelines developed by institutions such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Bank to highlight essential considerations for developing and implementing gender-transformative policy.
Dr. Collins’ work has also been published in Journal of Peasant Studies, International Relations, Environmental Politics, Global Governance, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal of Agrarian Change, Land Use Policy, and Globalizations.
Research Interests
- Feminist International Relations & Global Governance
- Gender and global political economy
- Global land and agricultural governance
- Gender and environmental politics
Education
- Ph.D., Political Studies, Queen’s University, Canada
- M.A., Global Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, Canada
- B.A., Political Science and Arts & Business, University of Waterloo, Canada
