Justin Williams
Justin Williams
Associate Professor of History
Director of the African American Studies Program
Contact Info:
Campus: McNichols Campus
Building: Briggs
Room: 322
Phone: 313-993-1099
Email: williaj47@udmercy.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Politics of modern Africa and its diasporas
Degrees
- Ph.D., History from Stony Brook University
- M.A., History from Stony Brook University
- B.A., History from Columbia College (Missouri)
Biography
Justin Williams is an associate professor of History and director of the African American Studies Program at University of Detroit Mercy. He specializes in the politics of modern Africa and its diasporas. He is the author of the book Pan-Africanism in Ghana: African Socialism, Neoliberalism, and Globalization, part of Toyin Falola’s Africa in The World Series on the Carolina Academic Press (2016). Williams has also published articles in African Studies, Journal of Pan African Studies, and the two-volume encyclopedia 50 Events That Shaped African American History. He joined the University in fall 2023.