Kim Williams

Email: kmw3@pdx.edu
Office: 650E URBN  
Phone: 503.725.8320 

Kim M. Williams is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Women, Politics & Policy at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. Before joining the faculty at Portland State in 2011 she taught at the Harvard Kennedy School (2000-2010). Her research and teaching interests converge around issues of race and immigration in American politics. She is the author of Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and numerous articles and book chapters. Cambridge University Press will publish her second book, Immigration Devolved. Appointed to the U.S. Census Advisory Committee for the African American Population in 2007, Williams holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in Government from Cornell University.