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Heather A. Williams is Presidential Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Williams attended 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.
She earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 2002. 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 Penn.
Works
- Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)
- Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
- American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
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