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Brackette Williams
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Brackette F. Williams
October 21, 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University Johns Hopkins University University of Arizona |
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| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | Duke University Queens College, City University of New York The New School University of California, Berkeley Johns Hopkins University University of Chicago University of Arizona |
Brackette F. Williams is an American anthropologist. An anthropologist is a scientist who studies human societies, cultures, and how people live. She is also a Senior Justice Advocate at the Open Society Institute. Currently, she is an associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Arizona.
Her Education and Teaching
Brackette Williams studied at several universities. She earned a bachelor's degree (BS) from Cornell University. She then received a master's degree in Education from the University of Arizona. Later, she earned her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Williams has shared her knowledge at many different schools. She has taught at places like Duke University and Queens College. Other universities include the New School for Social Research and the University of California, Berkeley. She also taught at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Arizona.
What She Studies
Dr. Williams's work often focuses on the Caribbean region. She has especially looked at how groups of people are defined by their race or background. She studies how these definitions affect a country's identity, like in Guyana.
A big part of her research is about "classification systems." This means she studies how people create categories and labels for things. She explores why these systems are made and how they are used. She also looks at who uses them and for what reasons.
Her ethnographic work also explores how categories are used in legal systems. Ethnography is a type of research where scientists study people and cultures closely. Dr. Williams was also the editor of a journal called Transforming Anthropology.
Awards and Recognition
Dr. Williams has received important awards for her work.
- 1997 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2008 Soros Justice Fellowships
Her Books and Papers
Dr. Williams has written many important articles and books. Here are some of them:
- Williams, Brackette F. 1989. "A Class Act: Anthropology and the Race to Nation Across Ethnic Terrain." Annual Review of Anthropology 18: 401– 444.
- Williams, Brackette F. 1991. Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, ISBN: 978-0-8223-1119-5.
- Williams, Brackette F. 1995. Classification Systems Revisited: Kinship, Caste, Race, and Nationality as the Flow of Blood and the Spread of Rights. In Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis, ed. Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney, 201-236. London: Routledge.
- Williams, Brackette F., ed. 1996. "A Race of Men, A Class of Women", Women out of place: the gender of agency and the race of nationality, Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-91497-0.
- Williams, Brackette F. 2005. "Getting out of the Hole",South Atlantic Quarterly 104(3):481-499
- Williams, Brackette F. 2008. “‘Dominando’ os bárbaros: Barbados, ativismo abolicionista e classificação da pena de morte.” Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 23 (68): 23-39.
