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Robert O. Collins

Robert O. Collins died at his home in Santa Barbara, California on April 11, 2008, of cancer after a short illness. Having grown up in Waukegan, Illinois, Bob majored in History at Dartmouth, earning a Phi Beta Kappa key and selection as a Rufus Choate Scholar. He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity ant the Outing and Mountaineering clubs. "In a career devoted to the study of Africa's Upper Nile Valley, particularly Sudan, historian Robert O. Collins wrote books and articles that were considered required reading for scholars and students of Africa," according to Bob's obituary in the Los Angeles Times

(http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-collins25apr25,1,3928959.story).

"In addition to his Dartmouth bachelor's Degree, Bob earned other history bachelor's and master's degrees from Oxford University's Balliol College in 1956 and 1960, as well as a master's degree and doctorate from Yale University in 1959. He was fluent in Arabic," the LA Times went on to say. After teaching at Williams College and Columbia University, Bob joined the faculty of UC Santa Barbara in 1965, and for ten years served as dean of the graduate division. Bob is survived by his daughter Catharine Kristian, his two sons, Randolph of Healdsburg, California, and Robert Ware Collins of San Jose, two brothers and five grandchildren.