Gregory Collins

Background

About Gregory Collins

I am a Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics and Department of Political Science at Yale University. My book on Edmund Burke's economic thought, titled Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy, was released by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Scholarly interests include the history of political thought; markets and morals; constitutional theory and practice; business ethics; African-American political and economic thought; and conceptions of liberalism and conservatism. I received the Buckley Institute’s 2024 Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize, which “recognizes a Yale faculty member who actively fosters intellectual diversity for students in and out of the classroom." I was also the 2020 recipient of the Novak Award, awarded by the Acton Institute to one young scholar each year conducting research on the connection between freedom and virtue; and the 2017 recipient of the Leonard P. Liggio Memorial Fellowship, awarded by the Philadelphia Society to one young scholar "who is actively contributing to the discipline of history or is otherwise advancing ourunderstanding of classical liberal thought." Check out my work at https://campuspress.yale.edu/gregcollins/. Here's my book's web page: