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Chad Williams, assistant professor of history, presented at two recent conferences. On March 27 Williams delivered a paper titled "A Mobilized Diaspora: The First World War, Military Service, and Black Soldiers as New Negroes" at The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters, a three-day international conference held at the University of Connecticut.

Chad Williams, assistant professor of history, has published an article in the current issue of The Journal of African American History. His article, “Vanguards of the New Negro: African American Veterans and Post-World War I Racial Militancy,” examines the participation of African American veterans in several post-war black radical organizations, and how their physical and symbolic presence informed the broader ideological tenor of the New Negro movement. The article is drawn from Williams’ larger forthcoming book project, Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers and the Era of the First World War. The Journal of African American History, founded in 1916 by Carter G. Woodson, is the leading peer-reviewed journal devoted to African American life and history.

Chad Williams, assistant professor of history, has been awarded a 2007 Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The fellowship, granted yearly, supports the scholarly research, writing, and intellectual development of underrepresented faculty in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences in order to improve their success in attaining tenure. Williams will use the fellowship to complete his book on African American soldiers and the First World War, as well as begin research on a future project.