Brittany M. Williams

Dr. Brittany M. Williams


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Academic Career Length

6Years (2021-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 August 2022 in Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
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Qua'AIsa Williams
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Brittany M. Williams
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Lamesha C. Brown

3 April 2023 in Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education
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Brittany M. Williams
In this qualitative meta-narrative, I explore how Black women administrators in higher education experience and navigate policing in predominantly white work environments. Using intersectionality as a framework and semi-structured interviews as the primary data collection technique, the findings from this study reveal workplace policing manifests for Black women on physical, emotion, and communicative levels. More specifically, participants endured restrictions and navigated dissatisfaction with their tone of voice, criticism of their attire and style of dress, and (mis)perceptions of office fit. Participants also reported engaging in self-policing practices to (over)compensate for and in anticipation of workplace-based policing struggles. I include implications for research and practice.

1 August 2023 in Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
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Lamesha C. Brown
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Brittany M. Williams
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Qua'AIsa S. Williams

1 May 2024 in Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
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Marissa Robinson
GAGloria Aidoo-Frimpong
Gloria Aidoo-Frimpong
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LaRon Nelson
MSMichelle DrPH Sandoval-Rosario
Michelle DrPH Sandoval-Rosario
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Brittany M. Williams
RCRasheeta Chandler
Rasheeta Chandler
Black women are essential to ending the HIV epidemic in the United States; yet prevention, access, testing, and structural racism affect how HIV disproportionately affects them. Limited public health research focuses on Black women attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the ability to address HIV prevention, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake. PrEP is a once-daily oral pill used to prevent HIV transmission and has suboptimal uptake within the Black community. This generic qualitative descriptive analysis identifies the barriers and facilitators of PrEP uptake among Black women attending an HBCU using the health belief model. Overall, 22 Black college women participated in a 60-minute focus group. Emergent categories were as follows: (a) Barriers—stigma, cost, and side effects; (b) Facilitators—PrEP's effectiveness, exposure to HIV, and unprotected sex. Our findings can inform future efforts to increase PrEP uptake among Black women attending an HBCU.

1 April 2024 in Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
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Brittany M. Williams
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David J. Thompson

20 August 2021 in Higher Education Research & Development
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Brittany M. Williams
GMGeorgianna Martin
Georgianna Martin
This qualitative, phenomenological study explored the rhetoric that low-income, first-generation college students in the United States use to describe and understand their social class and class-based experiences. We focused on the rhetoric associated with these descriptions given the complexity in naming and situating class-based experiences within and beyond college contexts in the United States. Our findings suggest that, while students readily described how their college experiences differed from their higher SES peers, many struggled to find language to describe social class in terms other than financial. Despite challenges in languaging their experiences, participants showed awareness of the functions of social class during college.