People
Joshua Collins
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Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
I am concerned with the challenges associated with learning and work for racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities.
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
Racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities
Learning, identity, and organizational culture
Critical human resource development
Masculinized industries
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
- Human Resource Development Review (Editorial Board Member)
- Perspectives in HRD for New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development (Associate Editor)
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

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Organizational Leadership, Policy And Development
206 Burton Hall
178 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0226 - collinsj@umn.edu