Anthony James Williams
My dissertation examines the use of discretion in California prisons. Broadly, my research examines how systems of power are both maintained and resisted, with a focus on Blackness, racism, race, and ethnicity.
Fields of Study
Incarceration; Race & Ethnicity; Gender & Sexuality; Social Movements;
Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
Williams, A.J. 2020. “Wayward in Sociology?” Contexts 19(4):82-3.
Williams, A.J. 2016. “The Road to Private Prison Divestment: Inside the University of California student campaign.” Boom: A Journal of California.
Williams, A. 2016 “South African Healthcare: Utopian Dream or Failed Reality?” Mellon Mays Undergraduate Journal.
Research Briefs
Williams, A. 2018. “Why Black Women Organizers Need to Care for Themselves and Each Other — and How They Can Do It." Scholar Strategy Network.
Williams, A. 2015 “#MasculinitySoFragile.” American Sociological Association Sex & Gender Newsletter.
Grants and Awards
- Graduate Research Fellowship Program (National Science Foundation), 2019-22
- Honorable Mention, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Ford Foundation), 2019-20
- Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant (Social Science Research Council ), 2019-20
- Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (UCLA), 2018-19
- Graduate Dean's Scholar Award (UCLA), 2017-22
- Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (UCLA), 2017-22
Conference Presentations
Black in Public: How witnessing among strangers subverts surveillance on public transit
2019 Association of Black Sociologists Conference (Panel), New York, NY
2019 American Sociological Association Conference (CUSS Section Rountable), New York, NY
2019 Black Doctoral Network (Panel), Newark, NJ
I don’t know these people: How Race, Gender, and Disability Shift Interactions
Among Strangers on Los Angeles Transit
2018 Association of Black Sociologists Conference (Roundtable), Philadelphia, PA
It Means Loving Yourself Enough: Black Women Leaders and Self Care in the #BlackLivesMatterMovement
2017 Queer Graduate Conference (Panel), University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2016 American Sociological Association Annual Conference (Roundtable), WA
2016 American Sociological Association Annual Conference, (Honors Roundtable), WA
#MasculinitySoFragile: Twitter as a Public Sociology Tool to Dismantle Toxic Masculinities
2016 Invited lecture—California State University Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
#MasculinitySoFragile: Dismantling Toxic Masculinity from the Inside Out
2016 Center for Race & Gender’s Thursday Forum Series (Lecture), Univ. of California, Berkeley
Being a Visible Marker: How Black Queer Women Activists Battle Microaggressions
2015 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Regional Conference (Panel), Stanford University
2015 Chicago Research Symposium: Humanities and Social Sciences (Panel), Univ. of Chicago
The G-Study: Examining men who have sex with men on Grindr
2014 Multicultural Community Center Research Symposium (Lecture), Univ. of California, Berkeley
Advisors
Dr. Karida Brown and Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter
Degrees
M.Phil. in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2020
M.A. in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019
B.A. (honors) in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2016