Walter L. Williams

2.7k total citations
72 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Walter L. Williams is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter L. Williams has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 5 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Walter L. Williams's work include Race, History, and American Society (8 papers), Archaeology and Natural History (3 papers) and Evaluation and Performance Assessment (3 papers). Walter L. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Race, History, and American Society (8 papers), Archaeology and Natural History (3 papers) and Evaluation and Performance Assessment (3 papers). Walter L. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Walter L. Williams's co-authors include Paula Gunn Allen, Peter May, John E. Tropman, Muriel Dimen, Peter H. Rossi, Carol H. Weiss, John Evans, Thomas E. Drabek, John D’Emilio and Martin Duberman and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The American Historical Review and Public Administration Review.

In The Last Decade

Walter L. Williams

58 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers

Walter L. Williams
Ian Craib United Kingdom
Irwin Deutscher United States
Malcolm Spector Canada
John Boswell United Kingdom
Charles Crothers New Zealand
Florian Znaniecki
Professor Mary Douglas
Stjepan G. Meštrović United States
Elise Boulding United States
Joffre Dumazedier France
Ian Craib United Kingdom
Walter L. Williams
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Fields of papers citing papers by Walter L. Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter L. Williams

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Williams, Walter L.. (2009). Strategies for challenging homophobia in Islamic Malaysia and secular China. 6(1). 1–21. 9 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L., et al.. (2003). Gay and lesbian rights in the United States : a documentary history. Greenwood Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L.. (2002). Endangered Relations: Negotiating Sex and AIDS in Thailand. American Ethnologist. 29(4). 1016–1017. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L.. (1998). Why people don't trust government. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 17(4). 721–730. 143 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L.. (1991). Homosexual behavior in cross‐cultural perspective. Reviews in Anthropology. 18(1-4). 35–40. 20 indexed citations
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Drabek, Thomas E., Peter May, & Walter L. Williams. (1987). Disaster Policy Implementation: Managing Programs Under Shared Governance.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 16(2). 216–216. 70 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L.. (1987). Women, Men, and Others. American Behavioral Scientist. 31(1). 135–141. 9 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L.. (1986). Persistence and Change in the Berdache Tradition Among Contemporary Lakota Indians. Journal of Homosexuality. 11(3-4). 191–200. 7 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L., et al.. (1984). Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa, 1877-1900. Journal of American History. 70(4). 898–898. 14 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L., et al.. (1983). My Work among the Florida Seminoles. The American Indian Quarterly. 7(3). 154–154.
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Williams, Walter L., et al.. (1981). The African Nexus: Black American Perspectives on the European Partitioning of Africa, 1880-1920. The American Historical Review. 86(5). 1166–1166. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L., et al.. (1980). Government by agency : lessons from the social program grants-in-aid experience. Academic Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L. & Daniel F. Littlefield. (1978). Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation. The American Historical Review. 83(2). 524–524. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L.. (1975). William Henry Sheppard, Afro-American missionary in the Congo, 1890-1910. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L., et al.. (1975). The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians. Ethnohistory. 22(1). 71–71. 21 indexed citations
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Rossi, Peter H. & Walter L. Williams. (1972). Evaluating Social Programs; Theory, Practice, and Politics. Quantitative Studies in Social Relations Series.. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L.. (1967). Cleveland’s Crisis Ghetto. Trans-action. 4(9). 33–42. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, Walter L., et al.. (1964). Liberal Education and Business. Journal of Risk & Insurance. 31(2). 306–306.

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