Dr. Rebecca Collins-Nelsen

Academic Background

• PhD, Sociology, 2018, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
• MA, Sociology, 2010 Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON
• HBA, Sociology and Communication, 2007, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON

Previous Work Experience

• Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University
• Contract Lecturer, McMaster University
• Contract Lecturer, Lakehead University

Representative Publications

• R Collins-Nelsen, Rebecca and Antony J. Puddephatt. (2018) "Gender, Artifacts, and Ritual Encounters: The Case of Tomboy Tools Sales Parties" Canadian Review of Sociology 55(4): 555-578.
• R Collins-Nelsen, Rebecca and Randle W. Nelsen. (2014) “Developing a User-Friendly, Community Based Higher Education” in Social Context Reform: A Pedagogy of Equity and Opportunity, edited by Paul R. Carr, Julie Gorlewski, Brad J. Porfilio & P. L. Thomas. London: Routledge.

Representative Conferences

• Collins-Nelsen, Rebecca, Sandeep Raha, Kim Dej, and Frank Koziarz. (June 2020 – since cancelled due to COVID-19). “The Importance of Experiential Contexts in Developing Students’ Transferable Skills” at the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Ottawa, Canada.
• Collins-Nelsen Rebecca, Sandeep Raha, Kim Dej, Gandhi Reni, Jahagirdar Anisha. (December 2019) “Understanding the student experience in a non-traditional and multi-instructor course” at the McPherson Institute Research, Teaching and Learning Conference. Hamilton, Canada.
• Braimoh, Jessica, Rebecca Collins-Nelsen and Julie Gouweloos (July 2018) “Unlearning: Teaching Sociology, and the Role of Embodiment in Shaping Critical Thinking” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Collins-Nelsen, Rebecca - Accepted to Present (July 2018) “Regulation in Non-Standard Work Environments: The Case of Stand-Up Comedy” at the International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Ontario
• Collins-Nelsen, Rebecca and Patti Millar (November 2017) “A Grounded Intersectional Analysis of Caster Semenya” at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Windsor, Ontario
• Collins-Nelsen, Rebecca (August 2017) “The Value of Intersectional Frameworks in the Classroom for Building Sociological Imaginations” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, Quebec
• Collins-Nelsen, Rebecca (August 2016) “Multifaceted Identity Dynamics and Governmentality: How Cultural Industries Sustain Inequality” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Seattle, Washington
• Collins-Nelsen, Rebecca (August 2015) “Mechanisms of Control in Creative Industries: The Case of Stand-Up Comedy” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, Illinois

Areas of Teaching

• Social Inequality
• Qualitative Research
• Sociology of Education
• Community Engagement
• Sociology of Technology

Research Specialization(s)

• Sociology of Education
• Social Inequality
• Children’s Rights
• Intersectionality
• Sociology of Work