Enslaved: A Short Digital History
with Daryle Williams
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Starts at 2:00 PM
Location: COB2-295
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For any questions please contact humanities@ucmerced.edu
About the speaker:
Daryle Williams (he/him/his) serves as UC Riverside’s Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. His academic training is in Latin American history with a specialization in modern Brazil. Born in San Francisco and raised in San Diego County, Williams spent most of his academic career on the East Coast and internationally. The move to UCR in September 2021 has been a homecoming that renews his enduring belief in the California Dream and the promise of the UC System.
Williams earned an undergraduate history degree and certificate in Latin American studies from Princeton University and a master's and Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
From 1994 to 2021, Williams served on the History Department faculty and then Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland. At College Park, Williams also held positions as graduate studies director and associate director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora. He has been a visiting scholar at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Stanford.
