Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
My research focuses on gender, race, power, popular culture, and crime in the twentieth-century United States. I am the author of Gendered Politics in the Modern South (2012), Amazons in America (2019), and Why Any Woman: Southern Feminist Popular Culture at the Millennium (2023). I am currently conducting research for a book on postwar Myrtle Beach, SC, tentatively entitled Mighty Man and the Southern Beats: Music, Race, Sex, and Violence on the Midcentury Carolina Coast.
Teaching
I teach courses on the American South, gender politics in the United States, pop culture and protest, and the history of mass incarceration. Before coming to QUB in 2017, I taught History at Texas Tech University, Coastal Carolina University, and Loyola University-New Orleans.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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"Change-Your-Life Television": Oprah Winfrey's feminist brand
Williams, K. V., 18 Jan 2023, In: Historifans.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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"Why any woman": feminism and popular culture in the late twentieth-century South
Williams, K. V., 15 Nov 2023, University of Georgia Press. 277 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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“A hank of hair here, a piece of bone there”: Glenda Gilmore's feminist political history
Williams, K. V., 15 Jul 2022, In: North Carolina Historical Review. XCIX, 3, p. 275-283Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Saving the Life That Is Your Own: Southern Women Writers' Great Migrations
Williams, K., 01 Oct 2020, (Early online date) In: Southern Cultures.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Amazons in America: Matriarchs, Utopians, and Wonder Women in U.S. Popular Culture
Williams, K., 06 Mar 2019, Baton Rouge, LA, US: Louisiana State University Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Prizes
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Dibner Library Residential Scholar, Smithsonian Institution
Williams, K. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Eta Omicron Nu Honors Service Organization Faculty Appreciation Honoree
Williams, K. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Faculty Research Initiatives Fund
Williams, K. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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“Angels in the Gutter”: Gender and Juvenile Delinquency in Mid-Century American Pop Culture
Williams, K. (Speaker)
2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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“Hell Hath Overtook You”: Sex, Race, Music, and Violence in Mid-Century Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Williams, K. (Presenter)
15 Apr 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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"The High Cost of Living and Dying in Dixie": Southern Women Writers Remembering the South
Williams, K. (Presenter)
09 Dec 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Race, Class, and Policing in the Americas: The Case of the US South
Williams, K. (Chair)
07 Oct 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Race and Policing in the Americas
Pepper, A. (Member of the organising committee), Deer, P. (Member of the organising committee), Williams, K. (Member of the organising committee) & Holmes, T. (Member of the organising committee)
10 Sept 2021 → 09 Dec 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Press/Media
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'Vanity Fair's Women on Women' Is a Missed Opportunity
23/01/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Jami Attenberg Explores Patriarchal Fallout in 'All This Could Be Yours'
09/12/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum: On the Literature of Witness in Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments'
04/10/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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