Robert C. Williams

Robert C. Williams (1938- )is a modern Russian historian. He has taught history

at Williams College, Washington University in St. Louis, Davidson College and

Bates College. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1966, and Harvard

University Press nominated his Russian Art and American Money (1980) for the

Pulitzer Prize. He has also published biographies of Klaus Fuchs and Horace

Greeley, along with monographs on the Russian emigration to Germany after 1917,

the Russian avant-garde, Lenin and his Bolshevik critics and (with Philip L.

Cantelon) the Department of Energy at Three Mile Island. He is a founding

member of History Associates Incorporated in Rockville, Maryland.

Williams has also written histories of two Maine towns, Lovell and Topsham,

where he has resided, and served as a board of trustees member at Wesleyan

University and Agnes Scott College. At Davidson College, he served as Dean of

Faculty/VPAA from 1986 to 2003. In Lovell, he served as moderator of the

Lovell UCC and chair of the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library board.

He and his wife, Ann Kingman Williams, have three children, two dogs and

three cats. Williams is an avid hiker, tennis and ping-pong player,and persists

in doing history. His books on the "historian's toolbox" and the "forensic

historian" are grounded in his love of both history and classroom teaching.