Danielle Terrazas Williams

Danielle Terrazas Williams was selected as a 2021-2022 Distinguished Visiting Scholar for the University at Buffalo's Center of Diversity Innovation.

Assistant Professor of History Danielle Terrazas Williams gave a public lecture at the University of Oregon titled "Who Dared to Question the Word of a Priest?: Free Black Women and Capital in 17th-Century Mexico."

Assistant Professor of History Danielle Terrazas Williams is the recipient of a yearlong (2021-2022) visiting fellowship at Notre Dame University's Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Assistant Professor of History Danielle Terrazas Williams presented the paper, "Speaking the Same Language: Free Women, Maroons, and Parallel Expectations," at Harvard University's Afro-Latin American Research Institute's First Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies.

Danielle Terrazas Williams won the 2019 Kimberly Hanger Article Prize from the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association for her work, "My Conscience is Free and Clear’: African-Descended Women, Status, and Slave Owning in Mid-Colonial Mexico."

Assistant Professor of History Danielle Terrazas Williams presents paper, "'I Do Not Owe Anything to Anyone': Seventeenth-Century Black Women Entrepreneurs on Mexico’s Royal Road" at the World History Association's 28th Annual Conference.

Assistant Professor of History Danielle Terrazas Williams won the 2019 Judith Lee Ridge prize on April 26, 2019, from the Western Association of Women’s Historians for her article, “‘My Conscience is Free and Clear”: African-Descended Women, Status, and Slave Owning in Mid Colonial Mexico,” published in the Americas.

Danielle Terrazas Williams, assistant professor of history, was awarded a Huntington long-term fellowship to conduct research at the library for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Assistant Professor of History Danielle Terrazas Williams was recently nominated and appointed to the President’s Council of Cornell Women.