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Associate Professor of History
Director of the African American Studies Program

Justin Williams
Contact Info:
Campus: McNichols Campus
Building: Briggs
Room: 322
Phone: 313-993-1099
Justin Williams
Areas of Expertise:
Politics of modern Africa and its diasporas

Degrees

  • Ph.D., History from Stony Brook University
  • M.A., History from Stony Brook University
  • B.A., History from Columbia College (Missouri)

Biography

Justin Williams is an associate professor of History and director of the African American Studies Program at 91´«Ã½.  He specializes in the politics of modern Africa and its diasporas. He is the author of the book Pan-Africanism in Ghana: African Socialism, Neoliberalism, and Globalization, part of Toyin Falola’s Africa in The World Series on the Carolina Academic Press (2016). Williams has also published articles in African Studies, Journal of Pan African Studies, and the two-volume encyclopedia 50 Events That Shaped African American History. He joined the University in fall 2023.

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