Heather Williams
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Research Interests
Professor Williams teaches and writes about African Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries, with emphasis in the American South. Her book, Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2005, received several book awards, including the Lillian Smith Book Prize. She is currently writing a book on separation of African American families during the antebellum period and efforts to reunify families following emancipation. This project considers, among other things, the process of mourning or grieving after separation, methods for keeping track of family members over distance and time, African American marriage following the war, and the larger society’s reception of the idea of legalizing black marriages.
Graduate Students Advised by Heather Williams
- Christopher Cameron
- Shannon Eaves
- Hilary Green
- Bryna O'Sullivan
(co-advised with Joseph Glatthaar)
Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)
For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.
- HIST 127 -- U. S. History to the Civil War
- HIST 376A -- African-American History to 1865
- HIST 378 -- Slavery and Place: The South Carolina Case
- HIST 395 -- Slavery into Freedom
- HIST 395 -- Domination and Resistance in American Slavery
- HIST 395 -- African American Life and Culture in Slavery
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
Phone:(919) 962-2381
hawill@email.unc.edu