Kristen Collins

Dr. Kristen Collins is a Senior Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She holds a PhD in Political Theory from Georgetown University, a BA in International Relations from Tufts University, and is an alum of the Mercatus Adam Smith Fellowship.

Collins’ research interests include normative democratic theory, liberalism, critical theory, and feminist theory. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, and the Political Science Reviewer.

She hosts the Virtual Sentiments podcast, which features conversations with scholars and practitioners reflecting on the ethics and politics of technology.

For further publications by Collins, visit her website or Substack: Theory of Virtual Sentiments.