Johnny E. Williams is the author of African-American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas (University Press of Mississippi 2003) which examines the role of religious culture in motivating civil rights protest among African-Americans. He is the author of numerous articles examining culture’s role in politics, social movement mobilization and scientific knowledge production.

His forthcoming book Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics (Lexington Press 2013) examines the complex role racialized culture plays in delimiting how genome researchers think about human genetic variation.

His commentary is featured in media outlets such as Black Agenda Report, Racism Review, CounterPunch, Ctnewsjunkie.com and The Mark News (Toronto, Canada).