Bruce A. Williams (born 1952) is an American political scientist and media studies scholar.

Biography

Williams received a PhD in political science from the

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in 1980. He has held faculty positions at the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

, the

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentu ...

, the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

, and the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. Presently, Williams is a professor of media studies at the

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. He has been a co-editor of the academic journal ''

The Communication Review The ''Communication Review'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering a great variety of aspects of media studies published by England-based publisher Routledge. Since 1999, the editors-in-chief have been Andrea L. Press (University of Virg ...

'' since 1999.

Research

Professor Williams has published three books and more than forty scholarly journal articles and book chapters. His book ''Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Languages of Social Regulation'' (with Albert Matheny), published by Yale University Press won the Caldwell Prize as best book for 1996 from the "Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics" section of the American Political Science Association. His textbook ''The Play of Power: An Introduction to American Politics'' (with James Eisenstein, Mark Kessler, and Jacqueline Switzer), St. Martin's Press, 1996 was selected by the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science Association in 1997 as the political science text published in the previous three years that best deals with women's issues and diversity. In addition to several recent articles, in 2010, Professor Williams and coauthor Professor Andrea L. Press published ''The New Media Environment: What's New, What's Not?''

Selected publications

* * * * * Tesh, Sylvia Noble, and Bruce A. Williams. "Identity politics, disinterested politics, and

environmental justice Environmental justice is a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms from hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses.Schlosberg, David. (2007) ''Defining Environmental Justic ...

." Polity 28.3 (1996): 285–305. DOI: 10.2307/3235374. volume 28, issue 3 (1996). 1996

References

External links

* http://www.virginia.edu/mediastudies/faculty/williams.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Bruce A. 1955 births American mass media scholars American political scientists Living people Pennsylvania State University faculty University of Illinois faculty University of Kentucky faculty University of Michigan faculty University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni University of Virginia faculty