Tivia Collins is an Assistant Professor in the Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Wake Forest University. She is also Affiliate Faculty in the African American Studies Program at Wake Forest University and in the International Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies at The University of Guyana. Tivia holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of the West Indies. Her research and teaching centres black transnational and diasporic feminisms, postcolonial feminist studies, citizenship studies and Caribbean feminist praxis. Her current research focuses on migrant women’s lived experiences of borders, citizenship, non/belonging and home. 

Tivia is currently working on her book proposal based on her PhD dissertation that explores Caribbean migrant women's lived experiences of intra-regional Caribbean migration and the livelihood strategies they develop to survive exclusionary, patriarchal, and classist state definitions of citizenship.  

Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Migration and Development, and Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. Tivia is currently a member of The MenEngage Alliance, a global network working to transform patriarchal masculinities, and serves on the advisory board for FeminiTT, a Caribbean-feminist collective geared towards advancing Gender Justice in the Caribbean.