Zachery Williams is Associate Professor of African American History at the University of Akron, Ohio. In 2003, he received his Ph.D. in history from Bowling Green State University, with a focus on Americana and African American policy history and Africana Studies. He is the author of In Search of the TalentZachery Williams is Associate Professor of African American History at the University of Akron, Ohio. In 2003, he received his Ph.D. in history from Bowling Green State University, with a focus on Americana and African American policy history and Africana Studies. He is the author of In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970 (Columbia: U of Missouri Press, 2009) and the editor of Africana Cultures and Policy Studies: Scholarship and the Transformation of Public Policy (Contemporary Black History Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Dr. Williams has also published articles in the Journal of Pan African Studies, Journal of Religious Thought, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey, and the Journal of African American Men. In the Spring of 2009, in a special issue of The Journal of American Studies of Turkey, focusing on African American Studies, he contributed an article entitled, Recovering the African American Past for the Purposes of the Policy Present: The History and Evolution of Africana Cultures and Policy Studies.” In 2012, Dr. Williams contributed the chapter, “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,” to the book, African American Males and Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity, published by Information Age Publishing.
In 2003, Dr. Williams co-founded the Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute, a policy think tank group dedicated to the study of African American Policy History and development of sustainable solutions to historic and contemporary problems impacting African Americans. Currently, Dr. Williams is the coordinator of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century’s Research Consortium, a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated Committee on Racial Justice, a recent fellow with the Center for American Progress Research Consortium, and also an Associate Minister at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio. Since arriving in 2003, he has been active in the Greater Cleveland/Akron community, participating in organizations such as the Institute for Restorative Justice and The Sound of the Genuine. He is married to Kesha Boyce Williams, and they are the proud parents of two daughters, Zion Olivet Williams, six, and Zipporah Raye Williams, three.
ed Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970 (Columbia: U of Missouri Press, 2009) and the editor of Africana Cultures and Policy Studies: Scholarship and the Transformation of Public Policy (Contemporary Black History Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Dr. Williams has also published articles in the Journal of Pan African Studies, Journal of Religious Thought, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey, and the Journal of African American Men. In the Spring of 2009, in a special issue of The Journal of American Studies of Turkey, focusing on African American Studies, he contributed an article entitled, Recovering the African American Past for the Purposes of the Policy Present: The History and Evolution of Africana Cultures and Policy Studies.” In 2012, Dr. Williams contributed the chapter, “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,” to the book, African American Males and Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity, published by Information Age Publishing.
In 2003, Dr. Williams co-founded the Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute, a policy think tank group dedicated to the study of African American Policy History and development of sustainable solutions to historic and contemporary problems impacting African Americans. Currently, Dr. Williams is the coordinator of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century’s Research Consortium, a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated Committee on Racial Justice, a recent fellow with the Center for American Progress Research Consortium, and also an Associate Minister at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio. Since arriving in 2003, he has been active in the Greater Cleveland/Akron community, participating in organizations such as the Institute for Restorative Justice and The Sound of the Genuine. He is married to Kesha Boyce Williams, and they are the proud parents of two daughters, Zion Olivet Williams, six, and Zipporah Raye Williams, three.