Brackette F. Williams is Associate Professor, University of Arizona School of Anthropology, Division of Sociocultural Anthropology. Williams, a Southern Arizona native, has studied race, ethnicity, gender, nationalism, and nationalist ideology in Guyana and the United States. Publications for this work include "A Class Act: Anthropology and the Race to Nation Across Ethnic Terrain" (1989), Stains of My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle (1991), and the edited volume, Women Out Place: The Gender of Agency and Race of Nationality (1995). As a MacArthur Fellow (1997-2002) and a Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow (2007-2009) since 1997, Williams‘research has focused on struggles over capital punishment and the incarceral regime of supermaximum-security lockdown prisons, by attending to the role of classification in the formation of ideologies that direct post-incarceral moral, cultural, and political-economic reintegration in the United States.
