C. Fred Williams
Dr. C. Fred Williams joined the faculty in 1969 and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. He served as Department Head (1973-1974), Department Chairperson (1974-1980), Associate Dean of Liberal Arts (1980-1983), and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (1983-1988). He is the director of the Center for Arkansas Studies and serves as editor of the Ledbetter Monograph Series on Arkansas Culture. Since 2000 he has served as Executive Secretary Treasurer of the Agricultural History Society.
Dr. Williams has served as president of the Arkansas Association of College History Teachers, the Little Rock Volunteers in Public Schools, the West Little Rock Rotary Club, and the UALR Assembly and Faculty Senate. He has received the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Faculty Excellence Award for Service and a Life-Time Achievement Award from the Arkansas Historical Association, and has been designated as Humanist of the Year by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Malone Fellow for Study in Arabic Countries (Tunisa).
Select Publications
Historic Little Rock: An Illustrated History 2007
Arkansas: Independent and Proud 2002
(Co-editor) Understanding the Little Rock Crisis Co editor 1999
“Arkansas and the Louisiana Purchase” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 2003
“The Second Morrill Act and Jim Crow Politics: Land-Grant Education in Arkansas AM&N College, 1989-1927,” History of Higher Educational Annual 1998
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