Dr. Samantha Williams

Biography

Samantha Williams is a Professor of Social History at the University of Cambridge and an Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Girton College. She undertook a BA (Hons) in History at Lancaster, where she developed a passion for social history, focusing on issues of poverty, medicine, and disease. She then pursued an MSc in Economic and Social History at Oxford, specializing in the social history of medicine through the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine. Her academic journey culminated in a PhD at Cambridge, where she studied the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. In addition to her research, she has teaching experience at Goldsmith's, University of London, before returning to Cambridge to work at the Institute of Continuing Education (Madingley Hall) and Girton College. She enjoys teaching both undergraduate students and older students at Madingley Hall. As Course Director of the part-time MSt in History, she supervises PhD and MPhil students, and teaches courses on various topics, including 'Poverty and Unmarried Motherhood in England, 1700-1900' and several papers on British social and economic history. Williams is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Economic History Society.

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