Rev. Jeremy L. Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of New Testament and Director of the Center for Theology and Justice
Email: jeremy.williams@tcu.edu
Phone: 817-257-7590
Biography
Rev. Jeremy L. Williams, Ph.D. is a global thinker, award-winning teacher, and ordained preacher. Dr. Williams is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School where he is also the inaugural director of the Center for Theology and Justice. He is a scholar of religion who is a graduate of Vanderbilt, Yale, and Harvard universities. He is the author of several publications including Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles: Race, Rhetoric, and the Prosecution of an Early Christian Movement. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled: "Abolitionist Acts of the Apostles: Reading with Liberti, a Hermeneutic of Imagination." He regularly teaches courses on biblical interpretation, Luke-Acts, Paul’s Letters, prison industrial complex abolition, race, and justice. Rev. Williams has pastored small and large CME congregations across the United States.
He is married to Kiara with whom he shares the joy of teaching their three-year old how to journey life well and dream better dreams.
Degrees:
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.Div., Yale Divinity School
B.A., Vanderbilt University
Courses Taught:
Crime, Punishment, and Policing in the New Testament World
Before Race and Religion: Modern Categories and the Study of the New Testament
Introduction to New Testament
Professional Affiliations:
Rhetoric in Early Christianity, Steering Committee Member
Society of Biblical Literature
FaithActs for Education, Board Member and Chair
Select Publications:
Victory Today Is Mine: The Present, Power, and Perseverance in the Revelation 12:7-12” in
Thomas Slater, ed. Afrocentric Interpretations of the New Testament Letters Hebrew,
James, Jude, Peter, and Revelation (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2021).“‘I am a Human’: Racializing Assemblages and Criminalized Egyptianness in Acts 21:31-39”
in Mitzi Smith, Angela Parker, Esau McCaulley, and Ericka Dunbar, eds. Bitter the
Chastening Rod": Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stony the Road We Trod in the
Age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo (Minneapolis: Lexington Books/Fortress
Academic, 2022).Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE