Professor and Dean
Daryle Williams, PhDDaryle Williams (PhD, Stanford, 1995) is Professor and History and Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. His academic training is in Latin American history. Williams’s scholarship focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazilian history. Most recently, his research has studied Atlantic slavery and emancipation in Brazil, with a strong focus on the methods and tools of the digital humanities. Williams began his academic career in 1994 at the University of Maryland, where he was a faculty member, academic leader, and PI, before returning to his home state California in 2021. Williams has been a team leader at Enslaved.org since the project's inception.