Professor Brittany Williams honored

Dr. Brittany Williams

Higher Education Administration Assistant Professor Brittany Williams is earning two honors this fall for her research into the experiences of black women in higher education. 

Williams is the 2019 Southern Association for College Student Affairs (SACSA) Dissertation of the Year award recipient for her study “‘I Did Everything I was Supposed to’: Black Women Administrative Professionals’ Push Out and Opt Out of Higher Education”. This competitive honor will be bestowed upon her at the 2019 SACSA conference Nov. 2-4 in Raleigh, N.C. where she will share the findings of her dissertation research study. 

She is also the recipient of the 2019 NASPA Region IV-E Research and Assessment Grant Award for her forthcoming study, “‘I have a career I can’t afford to start’: Examining Post-Doctoral Black Women’s Academic Precarity in Student Affairs and Higher Education.” The research award will support Williams’ efforts to explore financial and social class barriers to healthy and successful career beginnings for black women post-doctoral administrators and faculty in the fields of higher education and student affairs. 

Williams teaches in the master’s and doctoral programs in Higher Education Administration. She holds a doctorate in College and Student Affairs Administration from the University of Georgia. She focuses her research and advocacy on social class, black women and girls’ career progression, identity development, sexual health and engagement in activism. She is the co-founder of the award-winning #CiteASista digital counter-community and one of five founding members of #SisterPhD.