Nancy Walbridge Collins teaches transatlantic history and security studies at Columbia University. Collins also serves as the research director of Columbia's European Institute and chair of the Columbia Seminar on Modern Europe. Her current book project is Battleground Europe: Weapons of Transatlantic Knowledge in the New American Order.

She is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and U.S. Commission on Military History. Collins is a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education for its programs in international studies, and she serves on the boards of Learning Leaders and the Loomis Chaffee School. She is the past director of the Council for European Studies. In 2011, she received the NCAFP 21st Century Leadership Award.  

Collins earned her B.A. in government from Georgetown University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of London, where she was the Thornley Fellow. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from, among others, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Royal Historical Society, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Yale University.  

For further details on her courses, see www.ei.columbia.edu/nwcollins