Johnny E. Williams -Department Chair 2003-2006
Johnny E. Williams (M.A., University of Arkansas 1986; M.A., Brandeis University 1990; PhD., Brandeis University 1995) specializes in social movements, political sociology, and religion. Professor Williams also conducts research in the fields of race, cultural sociology, and the sociology of science.
Professor Williams’s research examines how cultural elements and social interactive processes in institutions are transformed into meanings that independently influence behavior. He is the author of African-American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas (University Press of Mississippi, 2003), which examines the role of religious culture in motivating civil rights protest among African-Americans. Recent publications: “Vanguards of Hope: The Role of Culture in Mobilizing African-American Women for Activism.” Sociological Spectrum 24:129-156, 2004. He is currently working on two articles that examine the complex role culture plays in legitimizing class and racial inequality in the political and academic arena.
Professor Williams teaches the following courses: Principles of Sociology (Sociology 101), Race and Ethnicity, Race (Sociology 214), Racism and Democracy (Sociology 336), Mass Media, Popular Culture and Social Reality (Sociology 241), Sociology of Religion (Sociology 342), Society, State and Power (Sociology 351), and Black Sociology (Seminar 410).
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