About
Kollin has been with GU since 2022 in the Humanities Department. He has a Ph.D. in the History of Ideas and his main focus of research and teaching is American intellectual history. At GU he instructs courses in American history, American government, philosophy, and the history of political thought. He directs the McAllaster Scholars Honors Program at GU, and is coordinating an undergraduate humanities conference to be hosted at GU in the Spring of 2025. He and his wife have three daughters.
Education
Kollin has been teaching for more than ten years, first as a high school teacher and then as a college and university professor. He earned a BA in Secondary Education with a History concentration from Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, an MA in American History from Sam Houston State University, and a Ph.D. in the History of Ideas from the University of Texas-Dallas. His doctoral dissertation focused on antidemocratic thought in American history, and he hopes to turn it into a book in the coming years.
Publications
In recent years Kollin has published essays, articles, and book reviews dealing primarily with American political thought. He chose to pursue a career in higher education because he cares about the students and desires to work with them to better understand not only the past, but the present.
-"'A Threat to Democracy': Anti-Democratic Thought in America Since the Civil War," PhD diss., (University of Texas-Dallas, 2023).
-“Law, Liberty, and Anarchism in the Progressive Era,” Review of Michael Willrich, American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 22 (2023): 533-535.
-“Reading Red Emma: A Critique of Liberal Democracy in America,” Blog, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (May 2022).
Awards
-Honorable Mention: “Best Dissertation Award,” Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, University of Texas-Dallas
-NetVUE Institutional Saga Grant, Project Participant: "History of Women in Leadership at GU"
