Bianca Williams (anthropologist) explained

Bianca Christel Williams (born 1980)[1] is an American cultural anthropologist, feminist, author and academic, whose work centers on black Americans. In November 2016, the American Anthropological Association and the Oxford University Press honored her with the AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology.[2] Williams is an associate professor of anthropology at Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Biography

Williams studied cultural anthropology at Duke University, earning a B.A. in 2002, an M.A. in 2005 and a Ph.D. in 2009, as well as a Graduate Certificate in African and African American Studies.[3] [4] In 2009, she was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder where her courses included coverage of black women, civil rights, the black power movement and "the ethnography of American blackness." She encourages her students to read fiction, poetry and self-help books side-by-side with academic scholarship.[5] In January 2017, she was promoted and received tenure in the Department of Anthropology at the University Colorado, and later that year she was hired as an associate professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. In 2018 she published The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism.[6]

Williams describes her pedagogical approach in "Radical Honesty: Truth-telling as Pedagogy for Working through Shame in Academic Spaces", a chapter in "Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment" (May 2016) encouraging her students to challenge racist institutional traditions by overcoming shame and fostering change.[7] [5]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bianca Christel Williams. https://web.archive.org/web/20210324001709/https://coloradoresidentdb.com/person/600264949/bianca_christel_williams. dead. March 24, 2021. Colorado Resident Database. 23 February 2017.
  2. Web site: Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology Goes to Bianca Williams. American Anthropological Association. 11 November 2016. 23 February 2017 .
  3. Web site: Bianca C. Williams. Association of Black Anthropologists. 23 February 2017. 23 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170223214517/http://aba.americananthro.org/bianca-c-williams/. dead.
  4. Web site: Bianca Williams. University of Colorado Boulder. 23 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170223211804/http://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/williams/. 23 February 2017. dead.
  5. Web site: Congratulations to the 2016 AAA Award Winners. Anthrolpology News. 23 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170331142523/http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2016/11/02/congratulations-to-the-2016-aaa-award-winners/. 2017-03-31. dead.
  6. Book: The pursuit of happiness : Black women, diasporic dreams, and the politics of emotional transnationalism. Williams, Bianca C.. 13 February 2018. 9780822370253. Durham. 1003854784.
  7. Book: Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment. HERC: Higher Education Recruitment Consortium. 23 February 2017. 978-1-62036-340-9 . 2016.

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