Confronting America's Real Sister Act: Black Catholic Nuns in United States History. Shannen Dee Williams is the Albert Lepage Assistant Professor of History at Villanova University and a historian of the African-American experience with research and teaching specializations in women’s, religious and black freedom movement history. She earned an M.A. in Afro-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University.
Her first book, Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African-American Freedom Struggle, was published by Duke University Press last spring. Dr. Williams is also a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.