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Joanna Lee Williams
Assistant professor in the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, William T. Grant Foundation Award winner
Joanna Lee Williams is an assistant professor in the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and affiliated with Youth-Nex: The U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development.
Williams’ research interests focus on race and ethnicity as social contexts for youth development. Specifically, her work examines ethnic identity as a form of positive youth development in the face of discrimination and other stressors, and ethnic identity in relation to youths’ beliefs and behaviors.
Williams was one of five young scholars in the country this year to be awarded the William T. Grant Foundation Award. The grant sponsors a five-year study of the benefits and challenges of ethnic diversity in middle schools sponsored. For this new work she will investigate diversity in early adolescent peer social networks.