Bruce A. Williams is an American born political scientist and media studies scholar.

Biography

Williams received a PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

 in ????. He has held faculty positions at the Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...

, the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

, the University of Illinois, and the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

. Presently, Williams is a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

 in Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville is an independent city geographically surrounded by but separate from Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom.The official population estimate for...

. He has been a co-editor of the academic journal The Communication Review

The Communication Review

The Communication Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of media studies published by Taylor & Francis. Since 1999 its co-editors have been Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams...

 since 1999.

Research

Professor Williams has published three books and more than forty scholarly journal articles and book chapters. His book Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Languages of Social Regulation (with Albert Matheny), published by Yale University Press won the Caldwell Prize as best book for 1996 from the Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics section of the American Political Science Association. His textbook The Play of Power: An Introduction to American Politics (with James Eisenstein, Mark Kessler, and Jacqueline Switzer), St. Martin's Press, 1996 was selected by the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science Association in 1997 as the political science text published in the previous 3 years that best deals with women's issues and diversity.

In addition to several recent articles, in 2010, Professor Williams and coauthor Professor Andrea L. Press

Andrea L. Press

-Biography:Press received a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. She has held faculty positions at the University of California, Davis, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the London School of Economics in a variety of...

published The New Media Environment: What’s New, What’s Not?

Selected Publications

• Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Languages of Social Regulation

• The Play of Power: An Introduction to American Politics

• The New Media Environment: An Introduction (2010)

External links

• http://www.virginia.edu/mediastudies/faculty/williams.html