About

Craig Williams is a professor in the Department of Classics at the Illinois School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics. He holds a BA from Yale University (1986), an MA and MPhil from Yale (1999), and a PhD from Yale (1992). His research and teaching interests include gender and sexuality in ancient Greek and Latin literature, friendship in Latin literature and epigraphy, animals and desire in Greek and Latin literature, Greek and Latin epigram, and Native American writing on Greco-Roman antiquity. Williams is the author of several books, including Roman Homosexuality, a commentary on Martial’s epigrams, A Martial Reader, and Reading Roman Friendship, along with numerous articles and reviews on Latin literature and Roman culture and their reception. Before joining Illinois, he was on the faculty of Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, and has also taught at the Freie Universität Berlin and Columbia University. He has been a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation multiple times, conducting research in Berlin. His current project explores the engagement of over eighty Indigenous writers of North America with Greco-Roman antiquity, emphasizing themes of Native survivance and the use of classical references to challenge narratives of Native barbarism.

Research topics

• Transport engineering
• Engineering
• Forensic engineering
• Business
• Civil engineering

Selected publications

• The design of masonry structures and foundations

  Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew) · 2010-01-01 · 2 citations

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• Through Burmah to Western China: Being Notes of a Journey in 1863 to Establish the Practicability of a Trade-Route Between the Irawaddi and the Yang-Tse-Kiang

  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin · 2002-04-29

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• Pavement management - it works

  1991-09-01

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• IN-SERVICE EMISSIONS OF 204 VEHICLES MANUFACTURED BETWEEN 1971 AND 1982

  OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) · 1987-01-01 · 5 citations

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• Discussion on “Boalich On Education”

  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers · 1947-01-01

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• The Guardians of Truth

  Rutgers University Press eBooks · 1942-12-31

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• Decisive inventions versus decisive battles

  Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1940-01-01

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• Discussion of “Williams on Distribution of Stresses Under a Foundation”

  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers · 1936-01-01

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• Building an engineering career

  McGraw-Hill eBooks · 1934-01-01 · 2 citations

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• Discussion on Railroad Transportation and Terminals

  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers · 1924-01-01

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Frequent coauthors

• J. G. Roney

  Procter & Gamble (United States)

  51 shared

• William T. Lyle

  51 shared

• B. F. Jakobsen

  Norwegian Public Roads Administration

  29 shared

• B. F. Jakobsen

  22 shared

• Herbert C. Keith

  6 shared

• T. Kennard Thomson

  5 shared

• Albert Lucius

  4 shared

• P. G. Lang

  Building Bridges

  4 shared

Awards & honors

• Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellowship in the Humanities Cou…
• Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Fifth Annua…
• University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study, Associate…
• Leonard and Claire Tow Endowed Professorship, Brooklyn Colle…
• Ethyle Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn Colleg…