Jean Williams

Professor

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About Jean Williams

Pronouns: She, Her, Hers

 

Education

Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University (1998)

Research Interests

As a Political Science professor, I’ve researched homelessness policy for 20 years. I’ve published a book and numerous journal articles on a variety of issues central to understanding and resolving homelessness: policy responses such as Housing First, the politics and methodological problems impacting homeless enumerations, the relationships between homelessness and domestic violence, and social movement activism by the unhoused.

I also research and teach about the politics of gender, sexuality, and race. I’ve published a book (with Alesha Doan) on the politics of sex education policy, as well as numerous articles on gender and sexuality.

Classes

• The Politics of Poverty
• Social Movements and Political Protest
• The Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
• California Politics
• Critical Issues in American Politics
• Introduction to Women's Studies
• Feminist Theory

 

Publications 

Journal Articles

Jean Calterone Willians, Nick H. Hopkinson, and Alex Martinez Perez (2024). "Framing Family Homelessness: Media Representations and the Invisibility of Families, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. DOI: 10.1332/17598273Y2024D000000030.

Jean Calterone Williams, Desiree Nunes, and Lauren Tankeh. (2022). “COVID-19 Racism and the Perpetual Foreigner Narrative: The Impacts on Asian American Students.” Race, Ethnicity, and Education, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2022.2114511. 

Jasna Jovanovic and Jean Calterone Williams. (2018). "Gender, Sexual Agency, and Friends with Benefits Relationships." Sexuality & Culture, 22: 555-576. 

Jean Calterone Williams. (2017). "The Politics of Homelessness in the United States," Oxford Handbooks Online, Jan 2017, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935307.013.153.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2016). "It's Always With You, That You're Different': Undocumented Students and Social Exclusion," Journal of Poverty, 20:2, 168-193. Published online December 7, 2015. DOI: 10.1080/10875549.2015.1094766.

Jean Calterone Williams and Jasna Jovanovic. (2015). "Third Wave Feminism and Emerging Adult Sexuality: Friends with Benefits Relationships," Sexuality and Culture, 19:157–171.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2011). "'Stand Up and Be Counted': The Politics of a Homeless Enumeration," Poverty & Public Policy, 3:3.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2011). “Battling a Sex-Saturated Society: The Abstinence Movement and the Politics of Sex Education.” Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society, 14:4, 416-443.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2005). "The Politics of Homelessness: Shelter Now and Political Protest." Political Research Quarterly, 58:3, 497-509.

Jean Calterone Williams. (1998). "Domestic Violence and Poverty: The Narratives of Homeless Women." Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, 19:2, 143-165. J

Jean Calterone Williams. (1996). "Geography of The Homeless Shelter: Staff Surveillance and Residents’ Resistance." Urban Anthropology, 25:1, 75-113.

Book Chapters

Jasna Jovanovic and Jean Calterone Williams (2023). “Sexuality in Modern Times: A Feminist and Queer Theory Perspective on Sex and Sexuality in Emerging Adulthood.” In Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer, (Eds.), Modern Relationships: The Evolution of Romance, Friendship, and Family. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.  

Jean Calterone Williams. (2015). "'Stand Up and Be Counted': The Politics of a Homeless Enumeration." In Max J. Skidmore, (Ed.), Poverty in America: Urban and Rural Inequality and Deprivation in the 21st Century (pp. 136-165). Washington, D.C.: Westphalia Press.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2008). "Homeless Women: Domestic Violence and Housing Instability." In Robert Hartmann McNamara (Ed.), Homelessness in America (pp. 57-74). NY: Praeger Publishers.

Jean Calterone Williams and Alesha E. Doan. (2006). "Sex Education." In James Ciment (Ed.), Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia of Controversies, History, and Debates. M.E. Sharpe.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2002). "Domestic Violence and Poverty: The Narratives of Homeless Women." In Susan H. Armitage with Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon (Eds.), Women's Oral History: The Frontiers Reader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Books

Jean Calterone Williams (2016). "A Roof Over My Head": Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry, second edition. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

Alesha E. Doan and Jean Calterone Williams. (2008). The Politics of Virginity: Abstinence in Sex Education. NY: Praeger Publishers.

Jean Calterone Williams. (2003). "A Roof Over My Head": Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. Nominee, The Michael Harrington Book Award. Nominee, The Leeds Prize.

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