College of Education and Human Development

Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Joshua Collins

  • Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies

  • Organizational Leadership, Policy And Development
    206 Burton Hall
    178 Pillsbury Dr SE
    Minneapolis, MN 55455-0226

  • collinsj@umn.edu
Joshua Collins

Areas of interest

Racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities
Learning, identity, and organizational culture
Critical human resource development
Masculinized industries

Degrees

Ed.D., Florida International University, adult education and human resource development
M.S., Texas A&M University, educational human resource development
Graduate Certification, Texas A&M University, women’s and gender studies
B.A., Texas A&M University, communication

Biography

Profile

I am concerned with the challenges associated with learning and work for racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities. In particular, I aim to utilize critical theoretical perspectives, such as feminist, critical race, and queer theories, to critique dominant Human Resource Development discourse and advance alternatives.

Courses taught

  • OLPD 3828—Diversity in the Workplace
  • OLPD 5607—Organization Development
  • OLPD 5616—Training on the Internet

Honors and recognitions

  • University Council for Workforce and HR Education Assistant Professor Award (2018)
  • Academy of HRD 2017 Early Career Scholar Award (2018)
  • Academy of HRD 2017 ADHR Outstanding Issue Award (2018)
  • Monica M. Lee Research Excellence Award, recognizing the best article in the annual volume of Human Resource Development International, Academy of Human Resource Development (2016)
  • Cutting Edge Award, recognizing standout papers published in the proceedings of the annual conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (2016)

Current professional affiliations

Publications

Davis, T. J., Greer, T. W., Sisco, S., & Collins, J. C. (2020). “Reclaiming My Time” Amid Organizational Change: A Dialectical Approach to Support the Thriving and Career Development for Faculty at the Margins. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 22(1), 23-40. doi:10.1177/1523422319885115

Lopes, T., Scully-Russ, E., Zarestky, J., & Collins, J. C. (2020). The Effects of Social Characteristics of Jobs on the Cognitive Skills of Adults in the United States: A PIAAC Analysis. Adult Education Quarterly, 70(2), 140-174. doi:10.1177/0741713619884567

Zarestky, J., Sisco, S., Alston, G. D., & Collins, J. C. (2019). Adult learning and inclusive feminism: Historical and contemporary perspectives on social justice and political activism. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development, 31(4), 4-17. doi:10.1002/nha3.20261

Sisco, S., Valesano, M., & Collins, J. C. (2019). Social movement learning and human resource development: An agenda for a radical future. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 21 (2), 175-192. doi:10.1177/1523422319827917

Collins, J. C., & Rocco, T. S. (2018). Queering employee engagement to understand and improve the performance of gay male law enforcement officers: A phenomenological exploration. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 30 (4), 273-295. doi:10.1002/piq.21255

Collins, J. C. (2018). Navigating machismo: The exemplary knowledge and transformative learning of three gay Latino men. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development, 30 (4), 42-53. doi:10.1002/nha3.20231

Greer, T.W., & Collins, J. C. (2017). Leveraging research to advance undergraduate HRD education: An introduction. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 19 (2), 115-123. doi: 10.1177/152342231769520

Collins, J. C. (2017). Leveraging three lessons learned from teaching an HRD undergraduate diversity and inclusion course: An autoethnography of one professor’s perceptions. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 19 (2), 157-175. doi:10.1177/1523422317695227

Zarestky, J., & Collins, J. C. (2017). Supporting the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals: A call for international HRD action.  Human Resource Development International, 20 (5), 371-381. doi:10.1080/13678868.2017.1329370

Collins, J. C., Zarestky, J., & Tkachenko, O. (2016). An integrated model of national HRD and critical HRD: Considering new possibilities for human resource development. Human Resource Development International, X(X), 1-17. Published ahead of print. doi:10.1080/13678868.2016.1258913

Grenier, R. S., & Collins, J. C. (2016). “Man, have I got a story for you”: Facilitated autoethnography as a potential research methodology in human resource development. Human Resource Development Review, 15(3), 359-376. doi:10.1177/1534484316656658

Shuck, B., Collins, J. C., Rocco, T. S., & Diaz, R. (2016). Deconstructing the privilege and power of employee engagement: Issues of inequality for management and human resource development. Human Resource Development Review, 15(2), 208-229. doi:10.1177/1534484316643904

Collins, J. C. (2016). Retaliatory strike or fired with cause: A case study of gay identity disclosure and law enforcement. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development, 28(1), 23-45. doi:10.1002/nha3.20129

Collins, J. C., & Abichandani, Y. (2015). Change in the face of resistance: Positioning hope for women returnees to the Indian workforce. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 18(1), 11-25. doi:10.1177/1523422315614928

Collins, J. C. (2015). Characteristics of “masculinized” industries: Gay men as a provocative exception to male privilege and gendered rules. Human Resource Development Review, 14(4), 415-441. doi:10.1177/1534484314559930

Collins, J. C., & Rocco, T. S. (2015). Rules of engagement as survival consciousness: Gay male law enforcement officers’ experiential learning in a masculinized industry. Adult Education Quarterly, 65(4), 295-312. doi:10.1177/0741713615585163

Collins, J. C., McFadden, C., Rocco, T. S., & Mathis, M. K. (2015). The problem of transgender marginalization and exclusion: Critical actions for Human Resource Development. Human Resource Development Review, 14(2), 205-226. doi:10.1177/1534484315581755

Plakhotnik, M., Rocco, T., Collins, J. C., & Landorf, H. (2015). Connection, value, and growth: How employees with different national identities experience a geocentric organizational culture of a global corporation. Human Resource Development International, 18(1), 39-57. doi:10.1080/13678868.2014.979009

McGill, C. M., & Collins, J. C. (2015).  Creating fugitive knowledge from disorienting dilemmas: The issue of bottom identity development.  New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 27(1), 29-40. doi:10.1002/nha3.20091