Dr. Michael Williams

Professor of History

Dr. Michael Vinson Williams is a Professor of History and Director of the African American Studies Program. His research and teaching interests focus upon twentieth century U.S. social and political resistance movements, Civil Rights struggle, grassroots activism and black intellectuals and radicalism. His publications include a biography of NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Wiley Evers titled Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr (University of Arkansas Press, 2011). Williams has been featured on C-SPAN’s titled series BookTV in Jackson Mississippi and has received a number of awards and recognition for his scholarship, teaching and community service including the Bharati Mehrotra Excellence in Teaching Award, the Union County Branch NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet Award, the Willie D. Halsell Prize from the Mississippi Historical Society and the Phenomenal Man Award. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in U.S., Civil Rights and African American history.

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Contact Info:

Liberal Arts 401

(915) 747-8650

Email: mvwilliams@utep.edu