Kidada E. Williams (Ph.D., The University of Michigan) joined the History Department as an assistant professor in fall 2006. Williams specializes in African American history, violence and victimization, and social movements. She teaches African American History I and II as well as American Slavery, Lynching in American Life and Culture, the Civil Rights Movement, and African Americans and Public History. Williams is the author of “Resolving the Paradox of our Lynching Fixation” in American Nineteenth Century History (2005) and They Left Great Marks on Me, a book on African Americans’ testimonies about racial violence and the origins of the first institutionalized campaigns of the civil rights movement (forthcoming New York University Press, 2012). Williams has other works in progress that include When Violence Came Home and After the Lynching Show.
Orientation to Graduate Study in African American History and information for advisees can be found at: (SITE BEING UPDATED)
