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Dr. Edward J. Williams

Title: Professor Emeritus
Office: Social Sciences Room 135
Phone: 520-621-5746
Office Hours: (none listed at this time)
Email: edwardw@email.arizona.edu
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Dr. Edward J. Williams is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona and Project Scholar, Arizona Humanities Council. He attended Potomac State Jr. College and received the BA and MA degrees from Duquesne University. He earned his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University.

Professor Williams teaches, lectures, and writes on Mexican and borderlands public policy and politics. He has written a number of books, research reports, and numerous articles for professional journals and op/ed pages on those topics.

Dr. Williams has served as a Rockefeller Research Fellow, Fulbright-Hays Senior Lecturer at El Colegio de Mexico, Fulbright Senior Scholar with the Viadrina European University on the German/Polish border, Visiting Research Scholar with the U.S. Army War College, Visiting Professor with the International School of Social Science at the University of Tampere, Finland and Visiting Professor with the U of A Study Abroad Program in Orvieto, Italy. He has consulted with the U.S. State, Defense, and Labor Departments and with leading private companies.

Professor Williams has served as President and Executive Secretary of the international Association for Borderlands Studies and been a member of the National Advisory Committee of the NAFTA agreement on labor. In the Arizona community, Professor Williams has served as an officer or on the boards of the Arizona-Mexico Commission, the Tucson Committee on Foreign Relations, the UN Association of Southern Arizona, Fundacion Mexico, and Prescott/Caborca Sister City Association. He has been thrice invited to the Arizona Town Hall as resource person or participant. Dr Williams has been active with the American Friends Service Committee and the Democratic Party. At the University, he served as the Faculty Ombudsman at Large, on the Faculty Senate, and the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

Professor Williams has been honored for excellence in teaching by the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies. At the University, he has been named an “Outstanding Teacher” and “Outstanding Honors Faculty”, recognized for his “Distinguished Service to Minority Graduate Students”, and cited for his “Distinguished Academic Accomplishments”.