Kimberly Williams

Education
BA (History and Theater) Rhode Island College
MA University of Toronto
MA University of Maryland
PhD University of Maryland

Office: EA 3173
Phone: 403-440-8684
E-mail: kawilliams@mtroyal.ca

Kimberly A. Williams earned her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies, with a focus on
the gendered, racialized dynamics of US foreign policy, at the University
of Maryland. Her dissertation interrogated U.S.-Russian relations in the
twelve years between the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the
U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The revised book manuscript, entitled
Imagining Russia: Toward a Feminist Analysis of American Nationalism in
U.S.-Russian Relations, was recently selected as one of three finalists
in the SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in Women's and Gender
Studies.

Williams is currently working on a project exploring the intersection of
government/elite discourse on and popular representation of “violence
against women” as a category separate and apart from other kinds of
violence. Her teaching and research interests include:
 

• Transnational feminist and queer theories and movements
• Feminist theories of nationalism, militarization, and international relations
• Men and masculinities in U.S. foreign policy and American nationalism
• Gender and global restructuring
• Visual, performance and media culture
• Feminist and critical pedagogies

In addition to a Ph.D. in Women's Studies, Williams holds an M.A. in
Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, an M.A. in History from
the University of Toronto, and a dual B.A. in history and theater from
Rhode Island College in Providence. You can learn more at
www.freewebs.com/kw20784.