Instructor contact and bio

Henry (Hank) Williams is a Lecturer in Lehman College’s Africana Studies Department. He has an M.Phil in English from the CUNY Graduate Center and BA in Media and Communications from the City College of New York. He was a 2011-12 Diversity Fellow at SUNY Purchase and has taught at CUNY’s Lehman College, City College of New York, and Hunter Colleges in the English, SEEK, and Sociology departments, respectively as well as for NYU’s Gallatin School for Individualized Study.

He currently teaches courses in the Africana Studies and English Departments at Lehman College.

Contact info

hank [dot] williams [at] lehman [dot] cuny [dot] edu

Office: Carman Hall 291
Spring 2023 hours: 4-5 PM Mondays/Wednesdays in person and via Zoom. Zoom link here

Current Courses

Fieldwork in the African American Community (Lehman Africana Studies)

African American History (Lehman Africana Studies)

Previous courses

Contemporary Urban Writers (Lehman English)

The Black Arts Movement (Hunter AFPRL)

Intro to Hip Hop History and Culture (Hunter AFPRL)

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