Bianca Williams (anthropologist)

Bianca Christel Williams (born 1980)[1] is a Black American cultural anthropologist, feminist, author and academic. 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 Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.[3]

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.[4][5] Since 2009, she has been an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder where her courses have 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.[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][6]

Selected publications

  • Navarro, Tami; Williams, Bianca C.; Ahmad, Attiya (2013). "Sitting at the Kitchen Table: Fieldnotes from Women of Color in Anthropology". Cultural Anthropology, 28(3):443-463.
  • Williams, Bianca C. (2009). "'Don't Ride the Bus!' and Other Warnings Women Anthropologists are Given During Fieldwork". Transforming Anthropology. 17: 155. doi:10.1111/j.1548-7466.2009.01052.x. ISSN 1548-7466.
  • Williams, Bianca (2013). "Virtual Ethnography". Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/obo/9780199766567-0107.

References

  1. ↑ "Bianca Christel Williams". Colorado Resident Database. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology Goes to Bianca Williams". American Anthropological Association. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "APLA at AAA 2016: Racism, BLM, and Immigrant Rights". Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. October 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Bianca C. Williams". Association of Black Anthropologists. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Bianca Williams". University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Congratulations to the 2016 AAA Award Winners". Anthrolpology News. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment". HERC: Higher Education Recruitment Consortium. ISBN 978 1 62036 340 9. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
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