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Owen Williams joined the [[Folger Institute]] in 1999 in the midst of writing his dissertation on Elizabethan law and religion in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania (he eventually finished). As the Institute's Assistant Director for Scholarly Programs, he welcomes faculty and advanced graduate students to the seminars, symposia, workshops, and conferences that the Institute plans and offers. On behalf of the Folger Institute's Consortium Executive Committee, Dr. Williams convenes the application review subcommittee, sits on the program planning subcommittee, and serves as liaison to the faculty representatives from some forty-five consortium universities. He is an ''ex officio'' member of the Steering Committee for the [[Center for the History of British Political Thought]]. He also serves as Administrative Project Director for [[Early Modern Digital Agendas]] and is a member of the [[Folgerpedia]] content team.
[[File:Ym folger headshot 102017-0417.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Photo Credit: Yassine El Mansouri]]
'''Owen Williams''' joined the [[Folger Institute]] in 1999 in the midst of writing his dissertation on Elizabethan law and religion in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania (he eventually finished). As the Institute's Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, he welcomes some two hundred faculty and advanced graduate students to the seminars, symposia, workshops, and conferences that the Institute plans and offers each year. On behalf of the Folger Institute's Consortium Executive Committee, Dr. Williams convenes the application review subcommittee, sits on the program planning subcommittee, and serves as liaison to the faculty representatives from forty-six consortium universities. He is an ''ex officio'' member of the Steering Committee for the [[Center for the History of British Political Thought]]. He also serves as Administrative Project Director for [[Early Modern Digital Agendas]] and is a member of the [[Folgerpedia]] content team. Follow him on twitter: [https://twitter.com/owilliamsdc @owilliamsdc]
 
Dr. Williams holds the A.B. in Classics, Greek, from Stanford University, the M.A. in English Literature from the University of Tulsa, and the Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Editor of ''Foliomania! Stories Behind Shakespeare’s Most Important Book'' (2011, reissued 2015), he is currently co-editing ''Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England'', with Kristen Poole for the University of Pennsylvania Press, which is due out in October 2019. His scholarly interests concern late-Elizabethan religious separatists.
 
In 2016, he completed the M.S. in Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies (ISLT) with a focus on Open and Distance Learning at Florida State University.


He has recently completed a M.S. in Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies (ISLT) with a focus on Open and Distance Learning at Florida State University.


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[[Category: Scholar]]
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[[Category: Scholarly programs]]

Revision as of 13:47, 10 August 2019

Photo Credit: Yassine El Mansouri

Owen Williams joined the Folger Institute in 1999 in the midst of writing his dissertation on Elizabethan law and religion in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania (he eventually finished). As the Institute's Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, he welcomes some two hundred faculty and advanced graduate students to the seminars, symposia, workshops, and conferences that the Institute plans and offers each year. On behalf of the Folger Institute's Consortium Executive Committee, Dr. Williams convenes the application review subcommittee, sits on the program planning subcommittee, and serves as liaison to the faculty representatives from forty-six consortium universities. He is an ex officio member of the Steering Committee for the Center for the History of British Political Thought. He also serves as Administrative Project Director for Early Modern Digital Agendas and is a member of the Folgerpedia content team. Follow him on twitter: @owilliamsdc

Dr. Williams holds the A.B. in Classics, Greek, from Stanford University, the M.A. in English Literature from the University of Tulsa, and the Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Editor of Foliomania! Stories Behind Shakespeare’s Most Important Book (2011, reissued 2015), he is currently co-editing Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England, with Kristen Poole for the University of Pennsylvania Press, which is due out in October 2019. His scholarly interests concern late-Elizabethan religious separatists.

In 2016, he completed the M.S. in Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies (ISLT) with a focus on Open and Distance Learning at Florida State University.