Hettie Williams

Hettie Williams is a historian of American history with a focus on the twentieth century, African Americans, race, and women’s history. She is currently an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University located in West Long Branch, New Jersey. She has co-edited/authored five books including Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History and The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey. She is in the process of completing several writing projects including screenplays: a thriller about Black women and the global haircare market, a dark romantic comedy, and a historical drama. Williams is also currently a research historian for the upcoming documentary My Buddy: The WWII 369th Documentary Project. Her most immediate project is a non-fiction book on the history of Black women in rock and roll entitled The British Invasion in Reverse: Black Women Rockers in the U.S. and Europe from Rosetta Tharpe to Grace Jones.