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Joy Williamson Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 315E Miller 685-7749 joyann@u.washington.edu

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Dr. Williamson's primary research agenda examines the reciprocal relationship between social movements--particularly those of the middle twentieth century--and institutions of higher education. Her previous work investigated black student-motivated reforms at predominantly white institutions during the Black Power era. Her book, Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-1975, examined the interaction between students and administrators that created the successful support systems which exist on today's college campuses. She has recently completed a manuscript entitled Education for Liberation: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle, which examines issues of institutional autonomy, institutional response to internal and external pressures, and the relationship between historically black colleges and the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. She has also written about the Black Panther Party's educational programs, the history of social justice in education, and the portrayal of the black freedom struggle in high school history textbooks.

Dr. Williamson teaches courses on the history of education, the history of higher education, education as a moral endeavor, the shifting definition of 'proper education' and 'liberation' for different social groups, and the educational histories of people of color. She also teaches in the Secondary Teacher Education Program.

Education

Ph.D.  History of American Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998

Publications

Books

Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi. New York: Teachers College Press, 2008.

Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Refereed Articles

This Has Been Quite a Year for Heads Falling:’ Institutional Autonomy in the Civil Rights Era,” History of Education Quarterly 44, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 489-511.

“‘Quacks, Quirks, Agitators, and Communists:’ Private Black Colleges and the Limits of Institutional Autonomy,” History of Higher Education Annual 23 (2003): 49-81.

“In Defense of Themselves: The Black Student Struggle for Success and Recognition at Predominantly White Colleges and Universities.” Journal of Negro Education 68, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 92-105.

Selected Invited Essays

Linda Darling Hammond, Joy Ann Williamson, and Maria Hyler, “The History of African American Education.”  In The African American Citizenship Project, edited by Henry Louis Gates.  New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008. 

Joy Ann Williamson, Lori Rhodes, and Michael Dunson, “A Selected History of Social Justice in Education,” Review of Research in Education 31 (2007): 195-224.

“Black Colleges and Civil Rights:  Organizing and Mobilizing in Jackson, Mississippi.”  In Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement, edited by Peter Wallenstein.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007 (pp. 230-270).

“A Tale of Two Movements:  The Power and Purpose of Misremembering Brown.  InWith More Deliberate Speed: Achieving Equity in Literacy:  Realizing the Full Potential of Brown v. Board of Education, edited by Arnetha F. Ball.  Washington, D. C.:  National Society for the Study of Education, 2007 (pp. 36-57).

“Reform in the Black Power Era.”  In Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education, edited by Vernon Burton.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

“Community Control with a Black Nationalist Twist: The Black Panther Party’s Educational Programs.”  In Black Protest Thought and Education, edited by William Watkins.  New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2005 (pp. 137-157).

“Brown, Black, and Yellow: Desegregation in a Multi-Ethnic Context,” History of Education Quarterly 44, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 109-112.