Timothy Williams

Timothy Williams is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of Oregon, within the College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on 19th-century U.S. history, particularly the Civil War and Reconstruction era, intellectual and cultural history, book history, gender studies, education history, and prison systems.

• PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Williams is the author of Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South (UNC Press, 2015) and co-editor (with Evan A. Kutzler) of Prison Pens: Gender Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863-1866 (UGA Press, 2018). His work has been published in the Journal of Southern History, Journal of the Civil War Era, and Civil War History.

Currently, he is researching Civil War prisoners and their influence on intellectual history and literature. He accepts MA and PhD students in nineteenth-century U.S. history, Civil War and Reconstruction history, and American intellectual history.