Courses Taught Recently

• Race and Ethnic Groups in the United States

• Social Stratification
• Race and Ethnic Group Relations
• Scholarly Career
• Development of American Sociology

• Racial/Ethnic Group Relations
• Family Violence
• History of American Sociology
• Thanatology

• Joyce E. Williams. “Rape Culture.”  Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer (ed.). Blackwell Publishing. Forthcoming 2006.

• Joyce E. Williams. “Margaret Mead.”  Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer (ed.). Blackwell Publishing. Forthcoming 2006.

• Joyce E. Williams and Vicky M. MacLean. “Jessie Bernard.”  Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer (ed.). Blackwell Publishing. Forthcoming 2006

• Joyce E. Williams. “Albion Small.” Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer (ed). Blackwell Publishing.  Forthcoming 2006

• Joyce E. Williams and Lisa Garza, “A Case Study in Change and Conflict: The Dallas Independent School District.”  Urban Education (Vol 41:5, September 2006).  

• Vicky M. MacLean and Joyce E. Williams. “Present at the Creation: Contributions of Women’s Colleges and Black Colleges to American Sociology.”  Plural Histories of American Sociology. Anthony J. Blasi (ed.) Brill Publishers  (2005).

• Joyce E. Williams and Vicky M. MacLean. “The Legacy of Community Studies.”  Plural Histories of American Sociology.  Anthony J. Blasi (ed). Brill Publishers (2005)

• Joyce E. Williams and Vicky MacLean “Studying Ourselves: Discipline-Building in Early American Sociology.” The American Sociologist.  (Vol 36:1 2005).

• Contessa Fincher, Joyce E. Williams, Vicky M. MacLean, Jeroan J. Allison, Catarina Kiefe, and John Canto. “Ethnic Bias and Coronary Heart Disease: A Sociological View of the Medical Literature,”  Ethnicity and Disease (Vol 14, Summer 2004)

• Joyce E. Williams.  “Obituaries Through Time.”  In THE HANDBOOK OF THANATOLOGY: ESSAYS ON THE SOCIAL STUDY OF DEATH, Vol II.  Edited by Clifton D. Bryant.  Sage Publications (2003)
• Vicky M. MacLean and Joyce E. Williams.  “The Social History of the American Cemetery.” In THE HANDBOOK OF THANATOLOGY: ESSAYS ON THE SOCIAL STUDY OF DEATH, Vol. II.  Edited by Clifton D. Bryant.  Sage Publications (2003).
• Williams, Joyce, Lisa Garza, Amitra Hodge, and Anissa Breaux. 1999. "The Color of Teachers--The Color of Students: The Multi-Cultural Classroom Experience." Teaching Sociology. 27(3):233-251.
• Jennifer  Gossett and Joyce E. Williams (1998)   "Perceptions of Discrimination Among Female Police Officers." Women and Criminal Justice
• Joyce E. Williams (1998)  "Domestic Violence." Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism Supplement. Susan Auerbach  (ed.). New York: Marshall Cavendish.
• Joyce E. Williams (1997).  "Discourses on Death: Obituaries and the Management of Spoiled Identity." Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying.
• Joyce E. Williams  (1996). "Color Consciousness in the Black Community." in African American Encyclopedia, Supplement. Kibibi Voloria Mack (ed). New York: Marshall Cavendish.

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