Dr. Naomi F. Collins is a consultant to cultural and higher
education organizations. She has served as Executive Director of
the Maryland Humanities Council and of NAFSA: Association of
International Educators. She has most recently developed and
produced studies analyzing issues in higher education
international programs (specializing in North America and
Europe) for the American Council on Education (ACE); and for the
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) and
the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration
(CONAHEC); researched and written the essay on the humanities
for Charles Scribner's Sons Encyclopedia of American Cultural &
Intellectual History; and co-authored an article for Change, a
higher education magazine. She serves as a Member of the Board
(and Executive Committee) of the International Research and
Exchanges Board (IREX).
During her tenure as Executive Director of NAFSA (1992-1997),
she was involved in the inception of North American trilateral
initiatives. She served as Chair of the Working Group on
Student/Scholar Mobility, and was later appointed to the
Trilateral Task Force on North American Higher Education
Collaboration. Since serving as Executive Director of NAFSA she
has received the Director's Award for Superior Achievement from
the [then] United States Information Agency (USIA).
A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Alpha Theta, she holds a
Ph.D. in history from Indiana University, and has taught
American History and Western Civilization at the university
level.
Dr. Collins has written and co-authored publications on 17th
century English biography; on international education, Islam,
and historical topics.
She has lived, worked, and traveled abroad for more than seven
years--in Turkey, Jordan, England, and Europe; and in Russia for
more than three years over different decades, including during
the 1991 coup attempt. She has also traveled in Mexico, Canada,
Germany, and China.
Dr. Collins has served on panels, boards, and review committees
concerned with cultural, educational, and museum issues, with
international exchanges, and with the commemoration of the U.S.
Constitution--for the National Science Foundation, the National
Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council on
Education, the U.S. Department of Education (FIPSE), Maryland
State Department of Education, and Maryland Bar Association.
Her biographic entries appear in Marquis Who's Who in America,
50th ed.; Who's Who in the East, 26th ed., Who's Who
of American Women, 20th ed., International Who's Who of
Professional and Business Women, 2nd ed., Cambridge,
England.
Updated:
09/17/2003
