Hettie V. Williams, PhD

Hettie V. Williams, Ph.D., has taught survey courses in U.S. history, world history, and upper division courses on the history of African Americans at the university level for more than fifteen years. Her teaching and research interests include: African American intellectual history, gender in U.S. history, and race/ethnicity studies. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University. She has published various entries and essays for several encyclopedias, edited volumes, and has co-edited/authored five books including, with Dr. G. Reginald Daniel, professor of historical sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union (University Press of Mississippi, 2014). Her latest book is a an edited volume entitled Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History (Praeger, 2017). Her forthcoming books include a book on Black women at Columbia University before 1954 and text on Black women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey.

Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History

Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union

Converging Identities: Blackness in the African Diaspora

Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun: The Collapse of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Revolt (1962-1968)