Caroline Collins
· Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and PlanningVerifiedUniversity of California, San Diego · Urban Studies and Planning
Active 1986–2024
About
Dr. Caroline Collins is an Assistant Professor of Social and Spatial Justice in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at UC San Diego, having joined the department in July 2024. She holds campus affiliations with the Democracy Lab, the Design Lab, the Indigenous Futures Institute, and The Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology. Dr. Collins earned her Ph.D. in Communication from UC San Diego in 2019, and her academic background also includes a Cathryn P. Gamble Social Impact Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC San Diego and a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of History at UC Irvine. Her primary research interests encompass public memory and the built environment, historic preservation, California and the American West, and the Black Pacific. She is currently under contract with UC Press for her first book manuscript exploring the making of race and place at Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. Her scholarly work has appeared in journals such as California History, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, and Public: A Journal of Imagining America, utilizing methodologies including archival research, ethnography, media production, and public history exhibitions. Dr. Collins's second major research project examines Black communities' long-standing connections to the U.S. Pacific, supported by funding from California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her research has also received support from various foundations and academic programs, reflecting her active engagement in exploring issues of heritage, race, and place. As a highly rated instructor and recipient of a UCSD Panhellenic Teaching Award, she offers courses on historic preservation, heritage tourism, environmental histories of race, and the history of San Diego, along with courses on research methodology.
Research topics
- Biology
- Immunology
- Genetics
- Medicine
- Pathology
- Internal medicine
- Pediatrics
Selected publications
Clinical Immunology · 2024-04-23
article114 Phenotypic Differences in Monochorionic Diamniotic Twins with Chronic Granulomatous Disease
Clinical Immunology · 2024-04-23
articleSevere Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) Patient and Families Report Significant Financial Burden
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2023-02-01
articleOpen accessJournal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2023-02-01
articleOpen accessClinical Immunology · 2023-05-01
articleJournal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2022-02-01
articleAtherosclerosis · 2021-08-01 · 4 citations
articleDefining the Clinical, Emotional, Social, and Financial Burden of Congenital Athymia
Advances in Therapy · 2021-07-02 · 4 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorCorrespondingINTRODUCTION: Characterize the burden of illness in pediatric patients with congen̄ital athymia who were receiving supportive care. METHODS: This cross-sectional study of adult caregivers of patients with congenital athymia used both a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews. Caregivers of patients currently receiving supportive care responded to questions about the past 12 months and completed the parent proxy version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Generic instrument (PedsQL) for patients aged 2-4 years. For caregivers of patients who had received supportive care in the past, questions were asked about the period when they were receiving supportive care only. RESULTS: The sample included caregivers of 18 patients, 5 who were currently receiving supportive care and 13 who received investigational cultured human thymus tissue implantation before study enrollment and had received supportive care in the past. The impact of congenital athymia was substantial. Reports included the need to live in isolation (100% of respondents); caregiver emotional burden such as fear of death, infection, and worries about the future (100%); financial hardship (78%); and the inability to meet family/friends (72%). Patients had frequent and prolonged hospitalizations (78%) and had high utilization of procedures, medications, and home medical supplies. Caregiver-reported PedsQL scores for patients currently receiving supportive care (n = 4) indicated low health-related quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers of patients with congenital athymia reported high clinical, emotional, social, and financial burden on patients and their families.
Journal of Clinical Immunology · 2021 · 19 citations
Senior authorCorresponding- Medicine
- Immunology
- Pediatrics
Providing Breast Milk to Infants and Toddlers with IgE-Mediated Food Allergies
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2021-02-01
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Frequent coauthors
- 12 shared
Elena W.Y. Hsieh
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- 9 shared
Corinne Keet
Johns Hopkins University
- 9 shared
Edmond S. Chan
British Columbia Children's Hospital
- 9 shared
Adolfo Garcı ́a-Sastre
University of Mississippi Medical Center
- 9 shared
Marcus Shaker
Dartmouth College
- 9 shared
Mathias Langner
TU Dresden
- 9 shared
Elena Goleva
University of Colorado Denver
- 9 shared
Suk Lee
Korea University Medical Center
Awards & honors
- Cathryn P. Gamble Social Impact Postdoctoral Fellowship at U…
- UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of…
- UCSD Panhellenic Teaching Award
- Herbert I. Schiller Communication Dissertation Fellowship
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