......................(AKA Doctor Donald)

Melvin WIlliams is a professor of anthropology with an affiliate
appointment in the Center for African and African American
Studies. Williams earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the
University of Pittsburgh in 1973. He has done research and
published on the Strait Salish of Vancouver Island, urban
pentecostalism, urban neighborhoods, African-American
churches in the Midwest, and the mirror images of water and
human nature. Williams was the first African-American graduate
student in George Peter Murdock's department. He was the
first graduate student to receive a tenure track appointment in
his own graduate department at Pittsburgh and the first such
student to receive tenure there. Williams proceeded to
promotion to full professor six years after receiving his Ph.D. He taught and held administrative positions at Purdue University, University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work throughout his career has been on poverty, community and intolerance. Much of his professional service has been within the communities that he has studied. He has worked in one community for 40 years and continues to the present. In that community he is establishing a community museum to document the social changes that have occurred there during the past century.

Doctor Donald is founder and curator of Second Gear: The Belmar Living Museum. He is also author of :

 

 

For further information, write to:

Second Gear: The Belmar Living Museum
M.D. Williams
P.O. Box 24073
Pittsburgh, PA 15206-24073

E-mail: mddoublu@umich.edu