Draft:Chad Williams (historian)

• Comment: Actually does pass WP:NPROF as a named chair. Curbon7 (talk) 09:17, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

• Comment: Williams is not immediately notable per WP:PROF, and the cited sources do not indicste that he has had a significant impact on his scholary field. Please note that, sources used for demonstrating his scholary impact have to be independent of Williams, i.e. sources that he has himself composed do not contribute towards notability in this case. Best regards, --Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 07:20, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

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Chad L. Williams (born October 14, 1976) is an American historian. He is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. Williams is a historian of twentieth-century African American history with expertise on African Americans and World War I.

Early Life and Education

Williams was raised in San Francisco, California. He attended Philip and Sala Burton Academic High School.

In 1998, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History and African American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating cum laude and with honors in History. While at UCLA he served as chair of the African Student Union and helped lead protests against Proposition 209.

In 2004, Williams received his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, where he studied with Nell Irvin Painter.

Career

In 2004, Williams was appointed as Assistant Professor in the History Department at Hamilton College. In 2010 he was promoted to Associate Professor. While at Hamilton College he received fellowship awards from the Ford Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

In 2012, Williams was appointed as Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. In 2018, he received the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History and African and African American Studies.

In 2017-2018, Williams was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Author

Williams is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2010. Torchbearers of Democracy won the 2011 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians, the 2011 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History and designation as a 2011 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

On June 19, 2015, following the massacre of nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Williams created the hashtag #CharlestonSyllabus. In 2016, he co-edited Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence (University of Georgia Press), with Keisha N. Blain and Kidada Williams.

In 2016, Williams co-edited Major Problems in African American History, Second Edition (Cengage Learning) with Barbara Krauthamer.

Williams’s next book, The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Williams has published articles and book reviews in numerous leading academic journals and collections, as well as op-eds and essays in popular venues such as The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, and The Conversation.

Publications

• Williams, Chad. Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era. University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

• Williams, Chad. "“A Mobilized African Diaspora: The First World War, Military Service, and Black Soldiers as New Negroes”." Escape from New York! The “Harlem Renaissance” Reconsidered. Ed. Davarian L. Baldwin and Minkah Makalani. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013

• Williams, Chad, Kidada E. Williams and Keisha N. Blain, eds. Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence. University of Georgia Press, 2016.

• Williams, Chad and Barbara Krauthamer, ed. Major Problems in African American History. Second Edition. Cengage Learning, 2016.

• Williams, Chad. "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Fight for American Democracy," The Washington Post, August 27, 2018.

• Williams, Chad. "African-American Veterans Hoped Their Service in World War I Would Secure Their Rights at Home. It Didn't," Time, November 12, 2018.

• Williams, Chad. "Du Bois Gave Voice to Pain and Promise." The Atlantic, July 4, 2020.

• Williams, Chad. "The Black Soldier," in Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain., eds. New York: One World, 2021.

• Williams, Chad. "As a patriot and Black man, Colin Powell embodied the ‘two-ness’ of the African American experience," The Conversation, October 18, 2021.

External links

Chad Williams on C-Span

Chad Williams on Twitter