Chad Williams is an associate professor in the History Department at Hamilton College. He received his BA in History and African American Studies from UCLA and his MA and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. His teaching and research interests include World War I, race, war and society, African American intellectual history and the African diaspora. Chad's first book, Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2010) has won the Society for Military History 2011 Distinguished Book Award for United States History and the Organization of American Historians 2011 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for best book on the struggle for civil rights in the United States.
