She serves as a faculty associate at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development and the Schubert Center for Child Studies. Dr. Collins graduate training and degrees are in psychology, anthropology, and social work. Her research focuses on understanding psychosocial processes in a cultural context, using cognitive anthropological theory and methods. Dr. Collins has published in the areas of child neglect, mixed methods research, domestic violence, cultural models, social welfare history, and substance use, and she has disseminated the results of her work at national and international conferences. She has taught courses in research methods, statistics, evidence-based practice, social welfare history and policy, the political economy of health, health disparities, as well as a variety of psychology courses.