Education
Collins earned her Bachelor of Arts in government from Georgetown University and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London, where she was named the Thornley Fellow, an international prize.
Collins earned her Bachelor of Arts in government from Georgetown University and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London, where she was named the Thornley Fellow, an international prize.
She is a research fellow with the University’s Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies as well as co-chair of the Columbia Seminar on Defense and Security. Her current book project is Strategic Force: United States. Special Operations in the 21st Century, with Yale University Press. Her essays and commentaries appear in a range of media outlets, including Cable News Network, FOX, Forbes, New York Times, TIME, and United States. News and World Report.
Collins is a strategic advisor to the United States. Department of Defense and the United States. Department of on a pro bono consultancy basis.
She serves on the United States. Commission on Military History and the Adams-Pendleton Prize Board. Collins is a trustee of the Loomis Chaffee School, her alma mater.
She has been awarded fellowships and grants from among others, the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Rockefeller Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Yale University. In 2011, she received the NCAFP 21st Century Leadership Award, and in 2013, she was awarded the United States. Congressional Dirksen Research Award.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Carnegie Council.