Historian

As a former teacher, MIC DUB was twice-recognized as his district’s teacher of the year and also the 2017 Tachau National Teacher of the Year by the Organization of American Historians. He was recognized in 2019 as a national distinguished teacher by the National Council for Geographic Education. He has published works in the texts “Family History In The Classroom” and “When We Were British: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visualizing Early America.” Williams was recently featured as a contributing author in Time Magazine’s “25 Moments That Changed History” series for his article on the Compromise of 1877. He has been awarded fellowships such as the West Indies Teacher Institute Fellowship and Rural Teachers Global Trust Fellowship where he researched in London, Scotland, Ghana and Barbados connecting teachers and classrooms through his research on the transatlantic slave trade and its contemporary effects. He has also presented two TEDx talks, “Who You? Ancestral Research As A Means of Shaping Identity” and “From Dodge to Diaspora.”