Faculty Directory
Timothy Williams
Part-Time Faculty
Timothy Williams
Ph.D.
Contact
McGuinn Hall 208D
Telephone: 617.552.2815
Email: Timothy.Williams@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., George Fox University
- M.S.W., Boston College
- M.Sc., Harvard School of Public Health
- Ph.D., University of Bath
Research Interests
Political economy; Social policy; International development
Expertise
- Child Welfare
- Gender-based Violence
- Global Practice
- Immigrants and Refugees
- Mental Health
- Systemic Inequities
Selected Publications
Williams, TP. et al. (2020). Protecting children on the move during infectious disease outbreaks: lessons from UNICEF's COVID-19 response. New York: UNICEF.
Williams, TP. et al. (2020). Responding to the shadow pandemic: taking stock of gender-based violence risks and responses during COVID-19. New York: UNICEF.
Carhill-Poza, A. & Williams, T.P. (2020). Learning ‘Anytime, Anywhere’?: The imperfect alignment of immigrant students’ Experiences and school-based technologies in an urban U.S. high school. Comparative Education Review, 64(3). 428-450.
Williams, TP. (2019) “The things they learned: aspiration, uncertainty, and schooling in Rwanda’s developmental state.” Journal of Development Studies, 55(4) 645-660. doi:10.1080/00220388.2018.1453602 Williams, T.P. (2019). The downsides of dominance: education quality reforms and Rwanda’s political settlement (pp. 86-104).In: Hickey, S. & Hossain, N. (eds). The Politics of Education in Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Williams, T.P. et al (2018). Child protection and sexual exploitation of adolescent girls within and beyond refugee camps in Rwanda. Child Abuse and Neglect, 86, 158-166. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.09.015.
Williams, T. P. (2017). The political economy of primary education: lessons from Rwanda. World Development, 96, 550-561. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.03.037
Williams, T. P. (2016). Theorizing children’s subjectivity: Ethnographic investigations in rural Rwanda. Childhood, 23(3), 333-347. doi:10.1177/0907568216644031