Howell Williams

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book coming August 2026: Fatherhood, Race, and the American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties (Penn Press): https://www.pennpress.org/9781512829846/fatherhood-race-and-the-american-state/ political science @ Western Connecticut State University

Cover of Polity v58 n3 featuring work by Barbara Kruger that says “your body is a battleground”

Cover of Howell Williams's "Fatherhood, Race, and the American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties." The cover features a retro picture of a White heterosexual family with the faces of the mother and two children obscured so that only the father is visible.

Semerwater in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in June 2026

Underside of round modernist building

Round modernist office building in Stamford CT

Lucy the dog with her favorite stuffed bear

A red-tailed hawk preparing for takeoff