Richard S. Williams
Associate Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 337 – 509-335-4705
sarek@wsu.edu
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Education
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1973
Academic & Professional Interests
Williams teaches the history of ancient Greece, Rome, and medieval Europe. He is interested in the use of electronic presentations in the classroom and has remodeled his lecture classes into PowerPoint presentations. Williams is the Webmaster for the Whitman County Historical Society.
Honors & Awards
Williams received the President's Faculty Excellence Award for Instruction in 1992 and has received two NEH Summer Institute Awards.
Publications
His most recent article (co-authored with his wife, Burma P. Williams), "Finger Numbers in the Greco-Roman World and Early Middle Ages," was published in Isis (December 1995). The Williamses' current research focuses on Roman mathematics and computing.
Phi Alpha Theta
Williams is the co-advisor to the Gamma Psi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta.
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