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{{Short description|American anthropologist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name =Brackette Williams
|birth_name = Brackette F. Williams
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|10|21}}
| nationality = American
| fields = Anthropology
| workplaces = [[Duke University]]<br />[[Queens College, City University of New York]]<br />[[The New School]]<br />[[University of California, Berkeley]]<br />[[Johns Hopkins University]]<br />[[University of Chicago]]<br />[[University of Arizona]]
| alma_mater = [[Cornell University]]<br /> [[Johns Hopkins University]]<br />[[University of Arizona]]
}}
'''Brackette F. Williams''' is an American [[anthropologist]], and Senior Justice Advocate, [[Open Society Institute]]. She is currently an associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Arizona.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://anthropology.arizona.edu/bfw |title=Brackette F. Williams | the School of Anthropology |access-date=2013-04-25 |archive-date=2013-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627024438/http://anthropology.arizona.edu/bfw |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stsc.berkeley.edu/Events/2008%20International%20Conference%20on%20Global%20Values%20for%20Global%20Health/bio_williams-brackette.html |title=Science, Technology, and Society Center |accessdate=2010-05-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610203417/http://stsc.berkeley.edu/Events/2008%20International%20Conference%20on%20Global%20Values%20for%20Global%20Health/bio_williams-brackette.html |archivedate=2010-06-10 }}</ref>
She graduated from [[Cornell University]] with a BS, from the [[University of Arizona]] with a master's in Education, and from the [[Johns Hopkins University]] with a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. ▼
She has taught at [[Duke University]], [[Queens College]], the [[New School for Social Research]], the [[University of California, Berkeley]], the [[Johns Hopkins University]], the [[University of Chicago]],<ref>http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/97/970617.macarthur.grants.shtml</ref> and the [[University of Arizona]].<ref>http://datamonster.sbs.arizona.edu/anthropology/people/display_fac_details.php?id=534</ref> ▼
<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/16/nyregion/campus-life-arizona-campus-police-attend-classes-on-sensitivity.html "CAMPUS LIFE: Arizona; Campus Police Attend Classes On Sensitivity"], ''The New York Times'', February 16, 1992</ref><ref>http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/March99/flemmie.williams.ssl.html</ref>▼
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▲She has taught at [[Duke University]], [[Queens College]], the [[New School for Social Research]], the [[University of California, Berkeley]], the [[Johns Hopkins University]], the [[University of Chicago]],<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/97/970617.macarthur.grants.shtml | title=University of Chicago News }}</ref> and the [[University of Arizona]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://datamonster.sbs.arizona.edu/anthropology/people/display_fac_details.php?id%3D534 |title=School of Anthropology - Faculty, Staff, and Students |accessdate=2010-05-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205124411/http://datamonster.sbs.arizona.edu/anthropology/people/display_fac_details.php?id=534 |archivedate=2010-12-05 }}</ref>
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Her work has centered on the [[Caribbean]] region, and in particular, examined how racial and ethnic categories are reproduced in [[Culture of Guyana|Guyana]] nationalism.<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 0822311194|title = Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle|last1 = Williams|first1 = Brackette F.|date = 12 April 1991}}</ref> Categories and classification systems - how they are developed, what basis they have in cultural contexts, and how they are put to use, by whom and for whom - have been a general theme in her work as well.<ref>Williams, Brackette F. 1995. Classification Systems Revisited: Kinship, Caste, Race, and Nationality as the Flow of Blood and the Spread of Rights. In Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis, ed. Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney, 201-236. London: Routledge.</ref> Williams's [[ethnography|ethnographic]] work on the categories informing [[capital punishment]] in the United States demonstrates has also been an interest.
She was editor of the journal ''Transforming Anthropology''.
==Awards==
* 1997 [[MacArthur Fellows Program]]
* 2008 Soros Justice Fellowships <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.soros.org/initiatives/usprograms/focus/justice/programs/justice_fellows/grantees/williams_2008 |title=Brackette Williams | U.S. Programs | Open Society Foundations |access-date=2010-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611112139/http://www.soros.org/initiatives/usprograms/focus/justice/programs/justice_fellows/grantees/williams_2008 |archive-date=2011-06-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Works==
*Williams, Brackette F. 1989. "A Class Act: Anthropology and the Race to Nation Across Ethnic Terrain." ''Annual Review of Anthropology'' 18: 401– 444.
*[http://saq.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/104/3/481 "Getting out of the Hole"],''South Atlantic Quarterly'' 2005 104(3):481-499▼
*Williams, Brackette F. 1991. [
*Williams, Brackette F. 1995. Classification Systems Revisited: Kinship, Caste, Race, and Nationality as the Flow of Blood and the Spread of Rights. In ''Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis,'' ed. Sylvia Yanagisako and Carol Delaney, 201-236. London: Routledge.
▲*[http://books.google.com/books?id=-Nx49xkfu-YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Brackette+Williams&source=bl&ots=9mPgiCWR9U&sig=9o6aNgb3ESW-4smc4mc-E4Y4rUs&hl=en&ei=d8LgS8iPD4_A8wSBpqTMCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle''], Duke University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780822311195
*Williams, Brackette F., ed. 1996. [
▲*Williams, Brackette F. 2005. [http://saq.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/104/3/481 "Getting out of the Hole"],''South Atlantic Quarterly''
*Williams, Brackette F. 2008. “‘Dominando’ os bárbaros: Barbados, ativismo abolicionista e classificação da pena de morte.” ''Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 23'' (68): 23-39.
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