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Chad L. Williams (born October 14, 1976) is an American historian. He is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. Williams is a historian of twentieth-century African American history with expertise on African Americans and World War I.

Early Life and Education

Williams was raised in

Philip and Sala Burton Academic High School
.

In 1998, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History and African American Studies from the

Proposition 209.[1]

In 2004, Williams received his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, where he studied with Nell Irvin Painter.

Career

In 2004, Williams was appointed as Assistant Professor in the History Department at

Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies
.

In 2012, Williams was appointed as Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Brandeis University.[3] In 2018, he received the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History and African and African American Studies.

In 2017-2018, Williams was a fellow at the

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[4]

Author

Williams is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era, published by the

Choice
Outstanding Academic Title.

On June 19, 2015, following the massacre of nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Williams created the hashtag #CharlestonSyllabus.[7] In 2016, he co-edited Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence (University of Georgia Press), with Keisha N. Blain and Kidada Williams.[8]

In 2016, Williams co-edited Major Problems in African American History, Second Edition (

Cengage Learning) with Barbara Krauthamer.[9]

Williams’s next book, The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Williams has published articles and book reviews in numerous leading academic journals and collections, as well as op-eds and essays in popular venues such as The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, and The Conversation.

Publications

  • Williams, Chad. Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era. University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
  • Williams, Chad. "“A Mobilized African Diaspora: The First World War, Military Service, and Black Soldiers as New Negroes”." Escape from New York! The “Harlem Renaissance” Reconsidered. Ed. Davarian L. Baldwin and Minkah Makalani. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013
  • Williams, Chad, Kidada E. Williams and Keisha N. Blain, eds. Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence. University of Georgia Press, 2016.
  • Williams, Chad and Barbara Krauthamer, ed. Major Problems in African American History. Second Edition. Cengage Learning, 2016.
  • Williams, Chad. "The Black Soldier," in Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain., eds. New York: One World, 2021.

References

  1. ^ [1]"Proposition 209 Damages Diversity," Daily Bruin (June 29, 1998)
  2. ^ [2]Nine Faculty Members Awarded Tenure (June 9, 2010)
  3. ^ [3]"Chad Williams to Lead Black Studies Department at Brandeis University (June 28, 2012)
  4. ^ "Chad L. Williams".
  5. ^ "Liberty Legacy Foundation Award | OAH".
  6. ^ "Book Awards".
  7. ^ [4]Charleston, one year later: Prof. Chad Williams looks back on the tragedy, Brandeis NOW (June 14, 2016)
  8. ^ "Charleston Syllabus".
  9. ^ "Major Problems in African American History, 2nd Edition - Cengage".

External links

Chad Williams on C-Span

Chad Williams on Twitter

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