Nancy Walbridge Collins teaches courses on Modern Europe and advises graduate and undergraduate students in European Studies and Transatlantic History. Her current book project is Battleground Europe: Weapons of Transatlantic Knowledge in the New American Order.

Collins serves as the Research Director of Columbia's European Institute as well as the Chair of the Columbia Seminar on Modern Europe, a faculty colloquium devoted to key transformations in the region. She previously served as the Director of the Council for European Studies at Columbia University in which she led this center’s interdisciplinary programs dedicated to the further advancement of the field, and as the Editor of the European Studies Forum, a journal devoted to showcasing original scholarship on Europe. 

She is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a member of the American Council on Germany, Aspen Institute, Carnegie Council, Council on Foreign Relations, National History Center, and U.S. Commission on Military History. Collins is a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education for its programs in international studies.

Collins earned her B.A. from Georgetown University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of London. She has received fellowships and grants from the Institute of Historical Research, Huntington Library, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, London Central Research Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Royal Historical Society, Society for the Study of French History, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Yale University.