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Biographical sketch of Rhonda M. Williams.(Brief Article)
Dr. Rhonda M. Williams earned her undergraduate degree in Economics from Harvard University in 1978 and her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. She began her teaching career in economics and Afro-American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She left in 1987 to become a Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University for two years, in Economics, Afro-American Studies, and Women's Studies. After spending two years on the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, in 1994, she accepted a joint appointment with Economics and Afro-American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was an outstanding teacher, winning an award for teaching from the University's Center for Teaching Excellence in 1997. During her career at the University of Maryland, Williams still found time to lecture at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, the Radcliffe Public Policy Center, Duke University, the University of Notre Dame, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Mount Holyoke College, the New Jersey Curriculum Transformation Project, Franklin and Marshall College, Towson State University, and other venues. She was Acting Director of the Afro-American Studies Program and an Associate Professor at Maryland at the time of her death in November 2000.
With Patrick L. Mason, Williams; edited Race, Markets and Social Outcomes (Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1997). She was also the author or coauthor of twenty-five journal articles and chapters in books or other edited volumes. Williams was a bridge between the academy and the policy arena, and her activism shined brightly in her scholarship as well as her ...
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