Profile of
Walter L. Williams, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology, History, and Gender Studies
Gender Studies Program
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089-4352 USA
and
Founding Editor,
International Gay & Lesbian Review
www.gaybookreviews.info
Background
Born and raised in North Carolina and Atlanta, Walter L. Williams received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He has taught at the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, at the University of Cincinnati, and as Fulbright Professor at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He currently teaches classes on Gender and Sexuality, and on American Indian Studies, at the University of Southern California.
Fieldwork Research
Dr. Williams has done fieldwork research living on the Eastern Cherokee and Pine Ridge Sioux reservations, and also among several other Native American groups, from the Yupik in Alaska to the Maya in Yucatan, Mexico. His other main research focus is on sexuality in the Southeast Asia / Pacific region, and he has lived in Indonesia, Polynesia, and Thailand. He has also done applied medical anthropology research on multi-cultural strategies that will help to prevent the transmission of H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted infections. In this research he has worked closely with Wan Yan Hai, China’s leading A.I.D.S. prevention educator and director of the Beijing AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education.
Publications
Walter Williams has published nine books and well over a hundred articles in professional journals, magazines, edited books, and encyclopedias, mainly on topics relating to sexuality, gender, and H.I.V. prevention. He has given speeches across the globe, for example, speaking on the history of sexuality to the 2002 annual meeting of the World History Association held at Korea’s Seoul National University, and on H.I.V. prevention to Shanghai Medical University and to Beijing University in 2001. He has been widely interviewed on television, radio, and the internet.
Among his many publications, Walter Williams is most noted for his path-breaking book on the respected tradition of sexuality in Native American religions, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture (Beacon Press). This book won awards presented at the American Library Association, the American Anthropological Association, and the World Congress for Sexology. His other books on Native Americans include Southeastern Indians Since the Removal Era (University of Georgia Press) and Indian Leadership (Sunflower University Press).
He has published a book on gender and sexuality in Indonesia: Javanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society (Rutgers University Press); and another book that is written in the Indonesian language Kehidupan Orang Jawa [trans. "Biographies of People of Java"] (published in Indonesia by Pustaka Binaman Press).
His books on the United States include Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa (University of Wisconsin Press), Homophile Studies In Theory and Practice (ONE Institute Press ), Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies That Work (Columbia University Press), and Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States (Greenwood Press).
purchase info in BOOKSHOP
Leadership Roles
Walter Williams (1978) was the co-founder and former chair of the COMMITTEE ON LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY. He arranged for its website to be established and sponsored by the University of Southern California at www.usc.edu/clgh
Walter Williams (1979-1981) was the Executive Secretary of the Greater Cincinnati Gay Coalition
Walter Williams (1984) was an officer of the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists www.solga.org
Walter Williams (1993) was the co-founder of the INSTITUTE FOR GAY AND LESBIAN STRATEGIC STUDIES www.iglss.org
Walter Williams (1994) led the effort and chaired the negotiations to merge ONE Institute (founded by W. Dorr Legg, Don Slater, and others in 1952), which is the world's second oldest ongoing gay research and educational institution in the Western Hemisphere, and the National Gay and Lesbian Archives (founded by Jim Kepner in 1978). Williams was responsible for this merged organization to become affiliated as a special collection with the University of Southern California, and for USC to offer a two-story 14,000 square foot building for this library. ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives is now the largest collection of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trandgender topics in the world. www.oneinstitute.org
Walter Williams (1996) was the Founding Editor of the INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW www.gaybookreviews.info
This was the world's first academic journal to be published
completely online.
Walter L. Williams, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology, History, and Gender Studies
Gender Studies Program
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089-4352 USA
and
Founding Editor,
International Gay & Lesbian Review
www.gaybookreviews.info
Background
Born and raised in North Carolina and Atlanta, Walter L. Williams received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He has taught at the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, at the University of Cincinnati, and as Fulbright Professor at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He currently teaches classes on Gender and Sexuality, and on American Indian Studies, at the University of Southern California.
Fieldwork Research
Dr. Williams has done fieldwork research living on the Eastern Cherokee and Pine Ridge Sioux reservations, and also among several other Native American groups, from the Yupik in Alaska to the Maya in Yucatan, Mexico. His other main research focus is on sexuality in the Southeast Asia / Pacific region, and he has lived in Indonesia, Polynesia, and Thailand. He has also done applied medical anthropology research on multi-cultural strategies that will help to prevent the transmission of H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted infections. In this research he has worked closely with Wan Yan Hai, China’s leading A.I.D.S. prevention educator and director of the Beijing AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education.
Publications
Walter Williams has published nine books and well over a hundred articles in professional journals, magazines, edited books, and encyclopedias, mainly on topics relating to sexuality, gender, and H.I.V. prevention. He has given speeches across the globe, for example, speaking on the history of sexuality to the 2002 annual meeting of the World History Association held at Korea’s Seoul National University, and on H.I.V. prevention to Shanghai Medical University and to Beijing University in 2001. He has been widely interviewed on television, radio, and the internet.
Among his many publications, Walter Williams is most noted for his path-breaking book on the respected tradition of sexuality in Native American religions, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture (Beacon Press). This book won awards presented at the American Library Association, the American Anthropological Association, and the World Congress for Sexology. His other books on Native Americans include Southeastern Indians Since the Removal Era (University of Georgia Press) and Indian Leadership (Sunflower University Press).
He has published a book on gender and sexuality in Indonesia: Javanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society (Rutgers University Press); and another book that is written in the Indonesian language Kehidupan Orang Jawa [trans. "Biographies of People of Java"] (published in Indonesia by Pustaka Binaman Press).
His books on the United States include Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa (University of Wisconsin Press), Homophile Studies In Theory and Practice (ONE Institute Press ), Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia: Strategies That Work (Columbia University Press), and Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States (Greenwood Press).
purchase info in BOOKSHOP
Leadership Roles
Walter Williams (1978) was the co-founder and former chair of the COMMITTEE ON LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY. He arranged for its website to be established and sponsored by the University of Southern California at www.usc.edu/clgh
Walter Williams (1979-1981) was the Executive Secretary of the Greater Cincinnati Gay Coalition
Walter Williams (1984) was an officer of the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists www.solga.org
Walter Williams (1993) was the co-founder of the INSTITUTE FOR GAY AND LESBIAN STRATEGIC STUDIES www.iglss.org
Walter Williams (1994) led the effort and chaired the negotiations to merge ONE Institute (founded by W. Dorr Legg, Don Slater, and others in 1952), which is the world's second oldest ongoing gay research and educational institution in the Western Hemisphere, and the National Gay and Lesbian Archives (founded by Jim Kepner in 1978). Williams was responsible for this merged organization to become affiliated as a special collection with the University of Southern California, and for USC to offer a two-story 14,000 square foot building for this library. ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives is now the largest collection of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trandgender topics in the world. www.oneinstitute.org
Walter Williams (1996) was the Founding Editor of the INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW www.gaybookreviews.info
This was the world's first academic journal to be published
completely online.