Curriculum Vitae
Zachery R. Williams
Cleveland, OH 44106
Home Phone: 216-721-4395
Email: zrw@uakron.edu
Academic Positions
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, HISTORY,
University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PAN AFRICAN STUDIES
2012
August 2005-Present
September 2008-January
INTERIM DIRECTOR, PAN AFRICAN STUDIES
2008
January-August
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, AFRICAN NEW WORLD STUDIES, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF
CULTURE, RACE, AND ETHNICITY,
Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
August 2003-May 2005.
Education
PH. D., History, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, December 2003. Emphasis: policy
history and African American history/Africana studies
DISSERTATION: "In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the
Dilemmas of Race and Gender in Academia, 1926-1970."
BACHELOR OF ARTS, History, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, Awarded May 1997.
Minor: African American Studies
Administrative/Leadership
FOUNDER/SENIOR FELLOW-Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute
2003-Present
Fall
LEADING ARCHITECT/FOUNDER-Revisiting Race Week, University of Akron
2008-
Fall
LEADING ARCHITECT/CONSULTANT, Black Male Summit, Univ. of Akron
2008-
Fall
Books
In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race in Academia,
1926-1970. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009.
Ed., Africana Cultures and Policy Studies: Scholarship and the Transformation of Public Policy.
Contemporary Black History Series co-edited by Manning Marable and Peniel Joseph. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2009.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Dreams From My Father: President Barack Obama and the Reconstruction of African American Men’s
History and Studies-A Response to the Ford Foundation Report, Why We Can’t Wait, in ed. African
American Males and Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity. Charlotte; Information
Age Publishing, 2012. (forthcoming).
“What’s Masculinity Got to Do With It: Toward Defining an African American Men’s History and Studies
Kirkland Vaughans and Warren Spielberg, eds. The Psychological World of African American Boys, Young
Men. Connecticut: Praeger, 2013. (forthcoming).
“Martin Delany: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of The Colored People of the United
States,” Milestone Documents in African American History: Exploring the Essential Primary Sources. Vol.
1, 1619-1852. Paul Finkleman, editor in chief. Dallas: Schlager Group, 2010.
“Monroe Trotter’s Protest To Woodrow Wilson,” Milestone Documents in African American History:
Exploring the Essential Primary Sources. Vol. 3, 1901-1964. Paul Finkleman, editor in chief. Dallas:
Schlager Group, 2010.
“Recovering the African American Past for the Purposes of the Policy Present: The History and Evolution
of Africana Cultures and Policy Studies.” Special Issue on African American Studies. Journal of
American Studies of Turkey, No. 29, Spring 2009: 33-52.
“Born To Rebel and Born To Excel: Black Religious Intellectuals, Benjamin E. Mays, and the
Development of Black Male Leadership,” in Zachery R. Williams, ed., Africana Cultures and Policy
Studies: Scholarship and the Transformation of Public Policy. Contemporary Black History Series coedited by Manning Marable and Peniel Joseph. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 133-156.
“Cornel West,” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of
Segregation to the Twenty-first Century. Oxford University Press, (2008)
“Louis Farrakhan,” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of
Segregation to the Twenty-first Century. Oxford University Press, (2008)
“Fred Shuttlesworth,” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of
Segregation to the Twenty-first Century . Oxford University Press, (2008)
“Woodie King Jr.,” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of
Segregation to the Twenty-first Century. Oxford University Press, (2008)
Million Man March,” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of
Segregation to the Twenty-first Century. Oxford University Press, (2008)
A History of Black Immigration into The United States through the Lens of African American Civil and
Human Rights Struggles,” co-written chapter in Immigrants Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship anthology
edited by Dr. Rachel Buff for New York University Press (2008), pp. 159-178.
“African Americans, Pan African Policy Matters, and the Evolution of a Black Foreign Policy
Constituency for Africa and the African Diaspora, 1930-2006.” Journal of Pan African Studies. (Vol. 1,
No. 10, 2007): 135-151.
“Alexander Crummell,” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial
Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass. Oxford University Press, 2006.
“Daniel A. Payne,” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to
the Age of Frederick Douglass. Oxford University Press, 2006.
“North Elba, N.Y. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to
the Age of Frederick Douglass. Oxford University Press, 2006.
“In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race in Academia,
1930-1968, Proteus: A Journal of Ideas. 18 (Fall 2001); 67-71.
“Prophets of Black Progress: Benjamin Mays and Howard Thurman, Pioneering Black Religious
Intellectuals,” Journal of African American Men. 5 (Spring 2001); 23-37
Published Book Article/Essay Reviews
Review of Maurice O. Wallace. Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African
American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775-1995. For Journal of African American History,
Spring 2004.
Review of Charles Pete Banner-Haley. From Du Bois To Obama: African American Intellectuals In The
Public Forum. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. Journal of American History, June
2011
Works-In-Progress
Proposed Book Series on Africana Cultures and Policy Studies/African American Policy History, Palgrave
Macmillan, New York.
Review of Derrick White. The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political
Activism in the 1970s. By Derrick E. White. Foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller. Southern
Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2011 Journal of Southern History
(forthcoming)
“The Prophetic and Transformative Leadership of Malcolm X and the Revival of Black Christian
Nationalism in the Context of Exile.” Journal of Religious Thought (forthcoming).
“Howard University Historians and African American Historiography,” in Pero Dagbovie and Stephen
Hall, eds. African American Historians and Historiography: Past,Present, and Future. Champaign:
University of Illinois Press (forthcoming)
Review of “Merze Tate and the Quest for Gender Equality at Howard University, 1942-1977,” History of
American Education Quarterly (forthcoming)
Review of “E. Franklin Frazier’s Sociology of Race and Class in Black America,” The Black Scholar
(forthcoming)
Review of “The New Negro Woman Goes to Campus: Gender, Generation, and African American
Womanhood, 1920s-1930s.” Journal of Women’s History (forthcoming)
Conference Papers
Presentations
“Peace for a Change: Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize and the Legacy of Black Peacemakers in
America,” 2010 Policy History conference, Columbus, OH.
“Born to Rebel and Born to Excel: Black Religious Intellectuals, Benjamin E. Mays, and the Development
of Black Male Leadership,” 2009 ASALH conference, September 30-October 4, 2009, Cincinnati,
Ohio, 2009.
“Reawakening the Ghost of C. Eric Lincoln: Barack Obama, the Complicated Politics of Race in America,
and the Continuing Challenge of Black Liberation Theology.” 2008 ASALH conference, October 1-5,
2008, Birmingham, Alabama.
“Meeting of the Minds: Howard Public Intellectuals, Africana Policy Studies, and the Creation of Black
Studies Institutes,” 2008 Policy History Conference, May 29-June 1, 2008.
“Lazarus Get up! The Sleeping Giant is No Longer Sleeping Dead: Contextualizing a Black Men’s
Theology Within the Tradition of African American Religious Studies,” 2008 National Council for Black
Studies conference, March 20-22, 2008.
Lazarus Get Up! The Sleeping Giant is No Longer Sleeping Dead: Contextualizing a Black Men’s
Theology Within the Tradition of African American Religious History,” Black Religion and Spirituality
Conference, November 7-8, 2008
“What’s Masculinity Got To Do With It: Moving Beyond Masculinity and Towards an Historical
Reconstruction of Black Men’s Studies?” Engendering Black History Panel. 2006 Association for the
Study of African American Life and History Conference. September 27-October 1, 2007.
“Recovering the African American Past for the Purposes of the Policy Present: The History and Evolution
of Africana Cultures and Policy Studies.” 2007 National Council for Black Studies Conference. May 1417, 2007.
“Freedom Dreams Revisited: The American Society for African Culture, Black Radical Imagination, and
African American Intellectual Life Since Bandung, 1955-2005.” Fifty Years Beyond Bandung: The
linkages Between Asia, Africa, and the Diaspora. April 21-22, 2006. Cleveland State University
“What’s Masculinity Got To Do With It: The Historical Construction of a Transnational Black Men’s
Studies Paradigm.” Race and Africana Studies: Reconfigurations, Rediscoveries, and Reconstructions.
Institute for Africana Studies Conference. The University of Connecticut. March 23-24, 2006. Storrs,
CT.
“The Historical Evolution of Africana Cultures and Policy Studies.” African Heritage Studies
Association Meeting. October 20-22, 2005. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
“Prelude to Community: The Foundations of the Howard University Intellectual Community, 1890-1925.”
Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference. October 5-9,
2005. Buffalo, NY.
“Between Theory and Practice: Howard Public Intellectuals, Research Institutes, and the Development of
Black, African and Africana Policy Studies, 1930-1979.” ASALH Annual Conference, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2004
"Past as Prologue: Howard University, Black Public Intellectuals, and the Dilemmas of Race in Academia,
1926-1970." Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference, Orlando,
Florida, October 2-6, 2002.
“In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of the Race in
Academia, 1926-1970. ” The Social Impact of Policy in History, Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, Ohio. November 9-11, 2001.
Invited Lectures
“The Sound of the Genuine Within: Martin Luther King Jr, Prophetic Becoming, and the Trumpet of
Conscience for Community,” Black History Month Lecture, Barberton NAACP, Barberton Public
Library, February 2010
“Dreams From My Father: President Barack Obama and the Reconstruction of African American Men’s
History and Studies,” OSU-Mansfield, February 26, 2009
“Black Men’s History: Manhood, Masculinity, and Identity,” Spring 2009 Urafiki Program, Ursuline
College, November 14, 2008.
“What’s Masculinity Got To Do With It: Black Men’s Studies,” Africana Studies Seminar, College of
Wooster, 2006.
“Benjamin E. Mays: Black Public and Religious Intellectual.” Lecture/Presentation for the Moore
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (MURAP). Institute for African American Research.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. July 24, 2004.
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses
African American Policy History, Fall 2011, Fall 2012
African American Men’s History
Fall 2010
American Immigration
Fall 2010, Summer 2011
Intro to Pan African Studies
Summer 2010, Summer 2012
Sports in American History
Fall 2012
American Immigration
Summer 2010
African American Men’s History
Spring 2010
African American History, 1877-Present
Fall 2009
African American Religious History
Fall 2009
African American History, 1877-Present
Summer 2009
African American Social & Intellectual Hist. Summer 2009
U.S. History Since 1877
Spring 2009
African American History, 1877-Present
Fall 2008
African American Social & Intellectual Hist. Fall 2008
African American Men’s History & Studies Summer 2008
African American Social & Intellectual Hist. Summer 2008
U.S. History Since 1877
Spring 2008
History of Hip Hop
Fall 2007
African American History, 1877-Present
Fall 2007
U.S. History, Since 1877
Summer 2007
Historical Methods
Summer 2007
World Civilizations-Africa
Summer 2007
U.S. History Since 1877
Spring 2007
African American Social & Intellectual
Spring 2007
Historical Methods
Fall 2006
U.S. History Since 1877
Spring 2006
African American History, 1877-Present
Spring 2006
African American History, 1492-1877
Fall 2005
African American Social & Intellectual Hist. Fall 2005
Graduate Courses
Rdg Sem: African American Gender History Spring 2010
Rdg. Sem: Whiteness/ Blackness & U.S. Hist. Fall 2006
Service-Professional Affiliations
ASALH/JAAH Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Lecturer
2005-Present
Member, Association for the Study of African American Life and History 2005-Present
Inducted Member, Society for the Study of Black Religion
2009-Present
Editorial Board member,
Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal 2009-Present