Patricia J. Williams

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Patricia J. Williams
Basic facts
Expertise:	Race, gender, law
Education:	•J.D. Harvard University, 1975 •B.A. Wellesley College, 1972
Website:	Official website

Patricia J. Williams is an American legal scholar and professor. As of June 2022, she was the University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University School of Law. According to her faculty page on Northeastern School of Law's website, Williams' areas of interest include race, gender, and law.

Career

Below is a summary of Patricia J. Williams' education and career:

Academic degrees:

• J.D. Harvard University (1975)
• B.A. Wellesley College (1972)

Professional positions and honors:

• Former James L. Dohr Professor of Law Emerita Columbia Law School
• Former Fellowship at the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth
• Former Fellowship at the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California at Irvine
• Former Fellowship at the Institute for Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard
• Former Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University
• Former Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies at Harvard
• Award recipient from the American Educational Studies Association and the National Organization for Women
• Member of the American Philosophical Society (2019)
• Award recipient from the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship (2000)

Academic scholarship

The following table contains a selection of books and works by Professor Williams about critical race theory and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work. All of her publications can be found here.

Scholarly work
Title	Source
Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind	HarperCollins (2021)
Open House: On Family, Food, Piano Lessons, and The Search for a Room of My Own	Farrar, Strauss & Giroux (2005)
Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race	Farrar, Strauss & Giroux (1998)
The Rooster’s Egg	Harvard Press (1997)
The Alchemy of Race and Rights: A Diary of a Law Professor	Harvard University Press (1992)
"History of Eugenics: “Intimacy and The Traumatic History of ‘In-law’ and ‘Outlaw’ Family"	Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (2018)
"Skittles as Matterphor"	Theory & Event (2021)
"Gathering the Ghosts"	The A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought (2018)
"Babies, Bodies, Buyers"	Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (2016)
"Returning to the Puritans"	Common-place: Journal of the American Antiquarian Society (2014)

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