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Elizabeth W. Williams is Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies at University of Kentucky. She completed her PhD in History, with a minor in Feminist Studies, at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include the history of race, gender, and sexuality; imperialism; Post/De-colonial studies; and Queer Theory. Her book project, Primitive Normativity: Race,Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya, was published in 2024 by Duke Press.
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Doctor of Philosophy, University Of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2017
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Moral and Social Hygiene Campaigns in colonial Africa- OVPR Curate Program
University of Kentucky’s Office of the Vice President for Research
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Primitive Normativity: Constructing Race and Sexuality in Colonial Kenya- OVPR CURATE Program
Office of the Vice President for Research
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Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya- OVPR CURATE Program
Office of the Vice President for Research
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Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya
Williams, E., 2024, Durham: Duke University Press. 256 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Recipes for Disaster: Cookery Books and the Management of Intimacy in Colonial Kenyan Settler Homes 1919–1944
Williams, E. W., Jul 2023, In: Gender and History. 35, 2, p. 511-527 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chapter 7: Talking God and Talking Cancer: Why Womanist Ethics Matters for Breast Cancer Prevention and Control among Black Women
Williams, E. A., 2022, In: Journal of Moral Theology. 2, p. 82-97 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Queering settler romance: The reparative eugenic landscape in Nora strange’s Kenyan novels
Williams, E. W., Jan 1 2018, Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race. p. 190-204 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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“Stoop Low to Conquer”: Race and sexual trusteeship in the Kenyan “Indian Crisis” of 1923
Williams, E., 2018, In: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 19, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review