Heather A. Williams

Heather A. Williams is a scholar of African American studies and lawyer. She serves as Presidential Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Heather A. Williams
Alma materSaint Ann's School
Harvard College
Harvard Law School
OccupationProfessor
EmployerUniversity of Pennsylvania
Notable work
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
TitlePresidential Professor and Professor of Africana Studies

Heather Andrea Williams moved to the United States from Jamaica when she was 11 years old.[2] She attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York,[2] then Harvard College, graduating in 1978, then earned a J.D. from Harvard in 1981. She practiced law in the public sector, serving as an assistant attorney general and section chief for the State of New York and as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.[3]

After teaching history at Saint Ann's School for two years,[2] she earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University[4] in 2002.[3] She was a post-doctoral fellow at Smith College for two years, then taught in the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2004 to 2014, when she was named Presidential Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.[3]

Works

References
  1. "Heather A. Williams | Africana Studies". africana.sas.upenn.edu. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  2. Feiner, Lauren (May 10, 2014). "Historian to join Africana Studies department as a Presidential Professor". The Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  3. Mott, Amanda (April 30, 2014). "Heather Williams Appointed Sixth Presidential Professor at Penn". news.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  4. "Heather Williams: " 'What I Came to Say': Writing Help Me to Find My People" | Department of African American Studies". afamstudies.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  5. Ayatey, Shirley A. (2006). "Review of Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 47 (1): 120–124. JSTOR 4234173.
  6. Bernstein, Robin (2009-02-21). "Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (review)". Southern Cultures. 15 (1): 87–89. doi:10.1353/scu.0.0047. ISSN 1534-1488.
  7. Mintz, Steven (2007-10-02). "Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (review)". Civil War History. 53 (1): 94–96. doi:10.1353/cwh.2007.0022. ISSN 1533-6271.
  8. Rousmaniere, Kate (2007-11-01). "Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom by Heather Andrea Williams". History of Education Quarterly. 47 (4): 532–534. doi:10.1111/j.1748-5959.2007.00120.x. ISSN 1748-5959.
  9. Troupe, Carol (2006-02-01). "Heather Andrea Williams, Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom". Black Theology. 4 (2): 240–242. doi:10.1179/blt.4.2.l61v08t6t417j560. ISSN 1476-9948.
  10. King, W. (2006-04-01). "HEATHER ANDREA WILLIAMS. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 304. $29.95". The American Historical Review. 111 (2): 484–485. doi:10.1086/ahr.111.2.484. ISSN 0002-8762.
  11. Margo, Robert A. (June 2005). "Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. By Heather Andrea Williams. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Pp xii, 304. $29.95. -". The Journal of Economic History. 65 (2): 590–591. doi:10.1017/S0022050705290228. ISSN 1471-6372.
  12. Chakkalakal, Tess (2014-02-08). "Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams (review)". The Journal of the Civil War Era. 4 (1): 126–129. doi:10.1353/cwe.2014.0007. ISSN 2159-9807.
  13. Perry, Imani (2012-06-29). "'Help Me to Find My People,' by Heather Andrea Williams". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  14. Hager, Christopher (2014-03-04). "Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams (review)". Civil War History. 60 (1): 92–93. doi:10.1353/cwh.2014.0009. ISSN 1533-6271.
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