Faculty Directory
Timothy Williams
Part-Time Faculty
Timothy Williams
Ph.D.
Contact
McGuinn Hall 208D
Telephone: 617.552.2815
Email: Timothy.Williams@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., George Fox University
- M.S.W., Boston College
- M.Sc., Harvard School of Public Health
- Ph.D., University of Bath
Research Interests
Political economy; Social policy; International development
Expertise
- Global Practice
- Immigrants and Refugees
- Poverty
- Social and Economic Inclusion
Selected Publications
Williams, T.P. et al (2018). Child protection and sexual exploitation of adolescent girls within and beyond refugee camps in Rwanda. Child Abuse and Neglect, 86, 158-166. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.09.015.
Williams, T.P. (2019-in press). The downsides of dominance: education quality reforms and Rwanda’s political settlement (pp. 86-104).In: Hickey, S. & Hossain, N. (eds). The Politics of Education in Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Williams, T. P. (2016). Oriented towards action: the political economy of primary education in Rwanda. Manchester, UK: The University of Manchester.
Williams, T. P. (2016). Theorizing children’s subjectivity: Ethnographic investigations in rural Rwanda. Childhood, 23(3), 333-347. doi:10.1177/0907568216644031
Williams, T. P. (2017). The political economy of primary education: lessons from Rwanda. World Development, 96, 550-561. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.03.037
Williams, T. P. (2018). The Things They Learned: Aspiration, Uncertainty, and Schooling in Rwanda’s Developmental State. The Journal of Development Studies, 1-16. doi:10.1080/00220388.2018.1453602
Williams, T. P., Abbott, P., & Mupenzi, A. (2015). ‘Education at our school is not free’: the hidden costs of fee-free schooling in Rwanda. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 45(6), 931-952. doi:10.1080/03057925.2014.938611
Williams, T. P., Alpert, E. J., Ahn, R., Cafferty, E., Konstantopoulos, W. M., Wolferstan, N., et al. (2010). Sex trafficking and health care in Metro Manila: identifying social determinants to inform an effective health system response. Health Hum Rights, 12(2), 135-147.
Williams, T. P., Binagwaho, A., & Betancourt, T. S. (2012). Transactional sex as a form of child sexual exploitation and abuse in Rwanda: implications for child security and protection. Child Abuse Negl, 36(4), 354-361. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.11.006
Williams, T. P., & Rogers, J. (2014). Rejecting ‘the child’, embracing ‘childhood’: Conceptual and methodological considerations for social work research with young people. International Social Work. doi:10.1177/0020872814539985