Emily Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3663375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7261-3071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Legal Observation at Protest: Developing Human Rights Monitoring in Ireland
Drawing on the experiences of developing the Irish Network of Legal Observers, this article explores the role of the legal observer in upholding the contemporary right of protest. It develops a categorization of different types of legal observer projects and analyses the international protections available to human rights defenders. Ultimately, the article argues that the legal observer plays an essential human rights function, particularly when …
Vehicles of change: Two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain
Two exceptional metalwork deposits, discovered at Melsonby, North Yorkshire, together constitute one of the largest Iron Age hoards recovered in Britain. Dominated by ornate horse harness and vehicle parts, these first-century AD assemblages provide possibly the first evidence for four-wheeled wagons from Iron Age Britain. Associated geographically and temporally with another hoard found in 1843 and with the Late Iron Age ‘royal site’ at Stanwick…
Everyday socialism or the socialist everyday? Dong Zhongchao’s visual encyclopaedia of ordinary Maoist living
This article investigates the recent publication by one of China’s well-known Red collectors, Dong Zhongchao. His 2023 book, Shiguang wuyu ( A Tale of the Times ), pairs together Mao-era poster images with photographs of the everyday objects depicted in the poster. This article will analyse this form of visual pairing through two contrasting understandings of the everyday: everyday socialism (the lived experience of ordinary living in the Mao era…
Shorter growing seasons may moderate climate change effects on crop water demands
Rising evaporative demand (ETo) with a warming climate contributes to diminished water availability in water-stressed agricultural regions globally. While increased ETo typically necessitates increased irrigation, we explore how crop phenological response can moderate this challenge. Focusing on five key agricultural crops in California’s San Joaquin Valley (SJV), we employ coupled water balance and phenology models to project crop water demands …
Bigger versus smaller: Children's understanding of size comparison words becomes more precise with age
The ability to compare plays a key role in how humans learn, but words that describe relations between objects, like comparisons, are difficult to learn. We examined how children learn size comparison words, and how their interpretations of these change across development. One-hundred-and-forty children in England (36–107 months; 68 girls; majority White) were asked to build block structures that were bigger, longer, smaller, shorter, or taller t…
China from the Margins: New Narratives of the Past and Present
From Grassroots Nostalgia to Official Memory: Red Relics in Contemporary China
“Teacher Burnout Is One of My Greatest Fears”: Interrupting a Narrative on Fire
Teacher burnout is often positioned as a common result of the complex demands of the teaching profession (García-Carmona et al., 2019). While there is no denying the demanding nature of teaching, in this article we present an alternative perspective on the widespread burnout discussion that distinguishes between burnout and the complexities of teacher attrition, and offer a more hopeful and strengths-based approach to the teaching profession. In …
The American electric utility industry’s role in promoting climate denial, doubt, and delay
It is now well established that fossil fuel companies contributed to undermining climate science and action. In this paper, we examine the extent to which American electric utilities and affiliated organizations’ public messaging contributed to climate denial, doubt, and delay. We examined 188 documents on climate change authored by organizations in and affiliated with the utility industry from 1968 to 2019. Before 1980, electric utilities’ messa…
Collaborative Research and Action for Climate Justice in California
How can university scholars and community activists effectively collaborate to produce generative, empowering, and materially impactful knowledge and actions concerning climate change and climate justice? In this paper, we report on a collaborative effort between climate justice non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and university faculty and students to conduct research to produce innovative ideas and insights about just transitions in Californi…
Intangible Benefactors and the Contribution of Construal Level and Attitude Accessibility in Predicting Gratitude and Expansive Emotions
We tested whether manipulating construal level would change the experience of gratitude or other expansive emotions (gratitude, awe, compassion) and negative emotions. We also examined whether construal level was correlated with the type of gratitude benefactor that participants spontaneously listed, focusing especially on God and non-theistic intangible benefactors compared to tangible human benefactors. We manipulated construal level in 265 U.S…
Framing the Questions That Matter: The Relationship between Archaeology and Conservation
Colonial Williamsburg has one of the longest continuously running archaeological conservation programs in North America. This program provides a unique laboratory in which to examine both historic and present-day intersections between archaeology and conservation to consider the inherent tensions and synergies between the two fields and to look at the ways they both contribute to the creation and understanding of history. Examining the history of…
Field Stabilization of Movable Heritage
Field Stabilization of Movable Heritage
Collecting the Red Era in Contemporary China
Since the 1980s the Chinese Communist Party has condemned the Cultural Revolution as ‘ten years of chaos’. Nevertheless, so far there has been very little discussion on the topic in the public sphere in China. This essay looks into how private collections of red relics can be used to confront this void in China’s recent past. It argues that collected objects play a much more complex role in history production than we may think, as they contribute…
Disclosing an Eating Disorder: A Situational Analysis of Online Accounts
Disclosing a mental illness can be difficult, especially for those affected by eating disorders. Individuals impacted by eating disorders often worry that disclosing their situation may lead to fear, judgment, and stigmatization. Online eating disorder communities have become increasingly popular, hosting thousands of users worldwide, and may be safe places for individuals with eating disorders to communicate and connect. In this postmodern study…
Employing Polyethnography to Navigate Researcher Positionality on Weight Bias
Researchers often focus on the content of their research interests but, depending on the research approach, may pay less attention to the process of locating themselves in relation to the research topic. This paper outlines the dialogue between an interdisciplinary team of researchers who were at the initial stages of forming a research agenda related to weight bias and social justice. Using a polyethnographic approach to guide our discussion, we…
From Sodomy to Sympathy: LDS Elites' Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Over Time
In this article, we examine how leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) discursively constructed homosexuality over the last 50 years. Based on textual analysis of LDS talks, magazines, and other publications, we analyze how LDS elites, responding to shifting historical, cultural, and religious interpretations of sexualities, discursively constructed homosexuality as problematic for (1) society from the 1950s to the 1990s…
Does gender matter? Exploring mental health recovery court legal and health outcomes
BACKGROUND: Based upon therapeutic justice principles, mental health courts use legal leverage to improve access and compliance to treatment for defendants who are mentally ill. Justice-involved women have a higher prevalence of mental illness than men, and it plays a greater role in their criminal behavior. Despite this, studies examining whether women respond differently than men to mental health courts are lacking. Study goals were to examine …
From kang (炕) to kongtiao (空调): China’s Twentieth Century Cooling
This essay suggests an alternative strategy for thinking about changes in Chinese society in recent decades, using not economic data or theories of development, but the metaphor of temperature. It argues that the cultural imperative in China has, in recent decades, switched from that of keeping warm to that of keeping cool. This change is made tangible through two key objects: the kang (炕), the northern Chinese heated bed, and the kongtiao (空调), …
Understanding the nutrition information needs of migrant communities: The needs of African and Pacific Islander communities of Logan, Queensland
Objective The purpose of the present study was to investigate the nutrition information needs of the Pacific Islander and African migrant communities of Logan. Design The present study was structured as a needs assessment and used qualitative research methods. An integrative review was used to gather and analyse data relating to comparative and normative needs, while semi-structured interviews were undertaken for the felt and expressed needs. Set…
The Effects of Effort-Reward Imbalance on Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Responses to Mental Stress
OBJECTIVE: We examined the influence of effort-reward imbalance, a stressful feature of the work environment, on cardiovascular and inflammatory responses to acute mental stress. METHODS: Ninety-two healthy men (mean age, 33.1 years) in full-time employment were recruited. Effort-reward imbalance was measured using a self-administered questionnaire. Blood, for the analysis of C-reactive protein (CRP) and von Willebrand factor (vWF) antigen, was s…
Sixty-Five Years of History: Archaeological Conservation at Colonial Williamsburg
Archaeological conservation at Colonial Williamsburg began in the early 1930s and has continued to the present, making it the longest running archaeological conservation project on a North American site. During this period, both the fields of conservation and of archaeology have undergone significant evolution. These changes have been reflected in the practice of archaeological conservation at Colonial Williamsburg. The focus has shifted from ind…
From Sodomy to Sympathy: LDS Elites' Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Over Time
In this article, we examine how leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) discursively constructed homosexuality over the last 50 years. Based on textual analysis of LDS talks, magazines, and other publications, we analyze how LDS elites, responding to shifting historical, cultural, and religious interpretations of sexualities, discursively constructed homosexuality as problematic for (1) society from the 1950s to the 1990s…
Collaborative Research and Action for Climate Justice in California
How can university scholars and community activists effectively collaborate to produce generative, empowering, and materially impactful knowledge and actions concerning climate change and climate justice? In this paper, we report on a collaborative effort between climate justice non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and university faculty and students to conduct research to produce innovative ideas and insights about just transitions in Californi…
Disclosing an Eating Disorder: A Situational Analysis of Online Accounts
Disclosing a mental illness can be difficult, especially for those affected by eating disorders. Individuals impacted by eating disorders often worry that disclosing their situation may lead to fear, judgment, and stigmatization. Online eating disorder communities have become increasingly popular, hosting thousands of users worldwide, and may be safe places for individuals with eating disorders to communicate and connect. In this postmodern study…
Intangible Benefactors and the Contribution of Construal Level and Attitude Accessibility in Predicting Gratitude and Expansive Emotions
We tested whether manipulating construal level would change the experience of gratitude or other expansive emotions (gratitude, awe, compassion) and negative emotions. We also examined whether construal level was correlated with the type of gratitude benefactor that participants spontaneously listed, focusing especially on God and non-theistic intangible benefactors compared to tangible human benefactors. We manipulated construal level in 265 U.S…
Sixty-Five Years of History: Archaeological Conservation at Colonial Williamsburg
Archaeological conservation at Colonial Williamsburg began in the early 1930s and has continued to the present, making it the longest running archaeological conservation project on a North American site. During this period, both the fields of conservation and of archaeology have undergone significant evolution. These changes have been reflected in the practice of archaeological conservation at Colonial Williamsburg. The focus has shifted from ind…
The Effects of Effort-Reward Imbalance on Inflammatory and Cardiovascular Responses to Mental Stress
OBJECTIVE: We examined the influence of effort-reward imbalance, a stressful feature of the work environment, on cardiovascular and inflammatory responses to acute mental stress. METHODS: Ninety-two healthy men (mean age, 33.1 years) in full-time employment were recruited. Effort-reward imbalance was measured using a self-administered questionnaire. Blood, for the analysis of C-reactive protein (CRP) and von Willebrand factor (vWF) antigen, was s…
Understanding the nutrition information needs of migrant communities: The needs of African and Pacific Islander communities of Logan, Queensland
Objective The purpose of the present study was to investigate the nutrition information needs of the Pacific Islander and African migrant communities of Logan. Design The present study was structured as a needs assessment and used qualitative research methods. An integrative review was used to gather and analyse data relating to comparative and normative needs, while semi-structured interviews were undertaken for the felt and expressed needs. Set…
Does gender matter? Exploring mental health recovery court legal and health outcomes
BACKGROUND: Based upon therapeutic justice principles, mental health courts use legal leverage to improve access and compliance to treatment for defendants who are mentally ill. Justice-involved women have a higher prevalence of mental illness than men, and it plays a greater role in their criminal behavior. Despite this, studies examining whether women respond differently than men to mental health courts are lacking. Study goals were to examine …
From kang (炕) to kongtiao (空调): China’s Twentieth Century Cooling
This essay suggests an alternative strategy for thinking about changes in Chinese society in recent decades, using not economic data or theories of development, but the metaphor of temperature. It argues that the cultural imperative in China has, in recent decades, switched from that of keeping warm to that of keeping cool. This change is made tangible through two key objects: the kang (炕), the northern Chinese heated bed, and the kongtiao (空调), …
From Sodomy to Sympathy: LDS Elites' Discursive Construction of Homosexuality Over Time
In this article, we examine how leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) discursively constructed homosexuality over the last 50 years. Based on textual analysis of LDS talks, magazines, and other publications, we analyze how LDS elites, responding to shifting historical, cultural, and religious interpretations of sexualities, discursively constructed homosexuality as problematic for (1) society from the 1950s to the 1990s…
Employing Polyethnography to Navigate Researcher Positionality on Weight Bias
Researchers often focus on the content of their research interests but, depending on the research approach, may pay less attention to the process of locating themselves in relation to the research topic. This paper outlines the dialogue between an interdisciplinary team of researchers who were at the initial stages of forming a research agenda related to weight bias and social justice. Using a polyethnographic approach to guide our discussion, we…
Field Stabilization of Movable Heritage
Collecting the Red Era in Contemporary China
Since the 1980s the Chinese Communist Party has condemned the Cultural Revolution as ‘ten years of chaos’. Nevertheless, so far there has been very little discussion on the topic in the public sphere in China. This essay looks into how private collections of red relics can be used to confront this void in China’s recent past. It argues that collected objects play a much more complex role in history production than we may think, as they contribute…
Disclosing an Eating Disorder: A Situational Analysis of Online Accounts
Disclosing a mental illness can be difficult, especially for those affected by eating disorders. Individuals impacted by eating disorders often worry that disclosing their situation may lead to fear, judgment, and stigmatization. Online eating disorder communities have become increasingly popular, hosting thousands of users worldwide, and may be safe places for individuals with eating disorders to communicate and connect. In this postmodern study…
Field Stabilization of Movable Heritage
Framing the Questions That Matter: The Relationship between Archaeology and Conservation
Colonial Williamsburg has one of the longest continuously running archaeological conservation programs in North America. This program provides a unique laboratory in which to examine both historic and present-day intersections between archaeology and conservation to consider the inherent tensions and synergies between the two fields and to look at the ways they both contribute to the creation and understanding of history. Examining the history of…
From Grassroots Nostalgia to Official Memory: Red Relics in Contemporary China
“Teacher Burnout Is One of My Greatest Fears”: Interrupting a Narrative on Fire
Teacher burnout is often positioned as a common result of the complex demands of the teaching profession (García-Carmona et al., 2019). While there is no denying the demanding nature of teaching, in this article we present an alternative perspective on the widespread burnout discussion that distinguishes between burnout and the complexities of teacher attrition, and offer a more hopeful and strengths-based approach to the teaching profession. In …
The American electric utility industry’s role in promoting climate denial, doubt, and delay
It is now well established that fossil fuel companies contributed to undermining climate science and action. In this paper, we examine the extent to which American electric utilities and affiliated organizations’ public messaging contributed to climate denial, doubt, and delay. We examined 188 documents on climate change authored by organizations in and affiliated with the utility industry from 1968 to 2019. Before 1980, electric utilities’ messa…
Collaborative Research and Action for Climate Justice in California
How can university scholars and community activists effectively collaborate to produce generative, empowering, and materially impactful knowledge and actions concerning climate change and climate justice? In this paper, we report on a collaborative effort between climate justice non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and university faculty and students to conduct research to produce innovative ideas and insights about just transitions in Californi…
Intangible Benefactors and the Contribution of Construal Level and Attitude Accessibility in Predicting Gratitude and Expansive Emotions
We tested whether manipulating construal level would change the experience of gratitude or other expansive emotions (gratitude, awe, compassion) and negative emotions. We also examined whether construal level was correlated with the type of gratitude benefactor that participants spontaneously listed, focusing especially on God and non-theistic intangible benefactors compared to tangible human benefactors. We manipulated construal level in 265 U.S…
China from the Margins: New Narratives of the Past and Present
Everyday socialism or the socialist everyday? Dong Zhongchao’s visual encyclopaedia of ordinary Maoist living
This article investigates the recent publication by one of China’s well-known Red collectors, Dong Zhongchao. His 2023 book, Shiguang wuyu ( A Tale of the Times ), pairs together Mao-era poster images with photographs of the everyday objects depicted in the poster. This article will analyse this form of visual pairing through two contrasting understandings of the everyday: everyday socialism (the lived experience of ordinary living in the Mao era…
Shorter growing seasons may moderate climate change effects on crop water demands
Rising evaporative demand (ETo) with a warming climate contributes to diminished water availability in water-stressed agricultural regions globally. While increased ETo typically necessitates increased irrigation, we explore how crop phenological response can moderate this challenge. Focusing on five key agricultural crops in California’s San Joaquin Valley (SJV), we employ coupled water balance and phenology models to project crop water demands …
Bigger versus smaller: Children's understanding of size comparison words becomes more precise with age
The ability to compare plays a key role in how humans learn, but words that describe relations between objects, like comparisons, are difficult to learn. We examined how children learn size comparison words, and how their interpretations of these change across development. One-hundred-and-forty children in England (36–107 months; 68 girls; majority White) were asked to build block structures that were bigger, longer, smaller, shorter, or taller t…
Legal Observation at Protest: Developing Human Rights Monitoring in Ireland
Drawing on the experiences of developing the Irish Network of Legal Observers, this article explores the role of the legal observer in upholding the contemporary right of protest. It develops a categorization of different types of legal observer projects and analyses the international protections available to human rights defenders. Ultimately, the article argues that the legal observer plays an essential human rights function, particularly when …
Vehicles of change: Two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain
Two exceptional metalwork deposits, discovered at Melsonby, North Yorkshire, together constitute one of the largest Iron Age hoards recovered in Britain. Dominated by ornate horse harness and vehicle parts, these first-century AD assemblages provide possibly the first evidence for four-wheeled wagons from Iron Age Britain. Associated geographically and temporally with another hoard found in 1843 and with the Late Iron Age ‘royal site’ at Stanwick…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social science (4 works)