Bianca Williams (anthropologist) facts for kids
Bianca Christel Williams, born in 1980, is an American expert who studies cultures and people. She is also a feminist, which means she believes in equal rights for all genders. Her work mainly focuses on Black Americans. In 2016, a big group called the American Anthropological Association and Oxford University Press gave her an award. It was for being excellent at teaching anthropology to college students. Ms. Williams is now a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
About Bianca C. Williams
Williams went to Duke University. She studied cultural anthropology there and earned several degrees, including her Ph.D. in 2009. She also got a special certificate in African and African American Studies.
After finishing her studies, she became a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2009. She taught classes about Black women, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Power movement. She also taught about what it means to be Black in America. She encourages her students to read many different types of books, not just textbooks. These include fiction, poetry, and self-help books.
In 2017, she became a tenured professor at the University of Colorado. Later that year, she moved to the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. In 2018, she published a book called The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism.
Williams has also written about her teaching style. She wrote a chapter called "Radical Honesty: Truth-telling as Pedagogy for Working through Shame in Academic Spaces." In this chapter, she talks about how she helps her students speak up against unfair traditions. She encourages them to overcome feelings of shame and work for positive change.
