Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Leadership of the CT university/community college system has been scandal prone and ineffectual for the decade I’ve taught in the system. This moment cries out for profound and lasting change. 020
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Zulma Toro was also brought in as a shadow president at WCSU. She must resign. 010
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026HUGE thank you to @jnovkov.bsky.social, @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social, @chelseaebin.bsky.social, and Gwen Alphonso for the conversation about my new book in Boston for APSA 0142
Reposted by Howell WilliamsRyan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Heading to @apsa.bsky.social this week? Be sure to check out these fantastic Politics and History panels. 🧵 with a chronological list of all the section panels below. Politics and History panels cover every subfield and we hope to see many of you in the audience at the conference! 123
Reposted by Howell WilliamsChelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026@hhowell.bsky.social’s book arrived today! I am SO excited this brilliant work is out in the world for everyone to read. Such a fantastic contribution to the APD field and a must read for anyone thinking about how white male supremacism has been institutionalized through the regulation of fatherhood 063
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Which I guess raises a more fundamental question: who are the real conservatives in American politics today? 011
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Yes, and those 20th c figures didn’t bother themselves with constantly revering/emulating the progressive movements of their pasts. They got on with the hard work of politics. 230
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Poli sci folks (and everyone): The latest issue of Polity @northeasternpsa.bsky.social on visuality of reproduction post-Dobbs is one of the most impressive academic journal issues I’ve ever seen. Well done to the entire editorial team. 000
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 28/06/2026This is such difficult experience. We lost our Lucy a year ago yesterday. Saba was a lucky pup to have you ❤️ 000
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Many thanks!! I look forward to hearing your thoughts. 010
Reposted by Howell WilliamsHowell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026My book Fatherhood, Race, and the American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties will be released with Penn Press on August 25. www.pennpress.org/978151282984... 284
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The book is available for preorder, and you can save 40% off the cover price at the Penn Press website using code "PENN-SUMMER26" 000
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I trace three discourses through which political actors express patriarchal anxieties. By historicizing each, I show how race conditions the state's response to the needs of fathers and how White patriarchy continues to shape assumptions about legitimate political power. 100
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I analyze moments in political development when political actors fretted about the status of White patriarchal control over families. I call these moments "patriarchal anxieties." 100
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The book analyzes the regulation of fatherhood through public policy from the mid-20th century to the present, arguing that patriarchy persists as a model of political authority in America because of racialized notions of "good" and "bad" fathering that valorize White fathers. 200
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026My book Fatherhood, Race, and the American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties will be released with Penn Press on August 25. www.pennpress.org/978151282984... 284
Reposted by Howell WilliamsChristopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 10/06/2026“Congress's top bathroom sheriff Nancy Mace is on the ballot, and while not all of the votes have been counted yet, she is in a respectful fifth place,” Sarah McBride just said. “I don't like punching down and I believe in the politics of grace. So all I will say is happy Pride, Nancy.” 1681531356
Reposted by Howell Williamsmelanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Sign from the ICE Out of Connecticut action in downtown Hartford right now: “ICE TOOK 1100+ PPL FROM CT SINCE JAN 2025” 016263
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026btw the “significant financial pressure” is coming from the dem-dominated state legislature and Gov Lamont Hard to imagine a “blue” state working harder to decimate public higher ed than CT 186
Reposted by Howell WilliamsHowell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026The issue is intentionally genealogical and critical in its approach to identities. Articles will explore how proximity, connection, and belonging operate as sites of both care and coercion. Full call for papers: www.mdpi.com/journal/gene... Send us your work!mdpi.com 032
Reposted by Howell WilliamsHowell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Gwen and I are political scientists writing about family in American political development. This special issue will theorize links between family and the state, thinking expansively about family and kinship sites of care and control over time. 121
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026The issue is intentionally genealogical and critical in its approach to identities. Articles will explore how proximity, connection, and belonging operate as sites of both care and coercion. Full call for papers: www.mdpi.com/journal/gene... Send us your work!mdpi.com 032
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Gwen and I are political scientists writing about family in American political development. This special issue will theorize links between family and the state, thinking expansively about family and kinship sites of care and control over time. 121
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I'm guest editing (w. Gwen Alphonso) an issue for Genealogy titled "Kinship, Care, and Coercion: Historical Narratives of Family and Power in U.S. and Global Contexts" Feat. interdisciplinary assessments of family, care, and kinship as sites of control and/or support 121
Reposted by Howell WilliamsLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 16/03/2026"This movement is not new, but the COVID-19 pandemic provided the ideal accelerant for advancing its goals." www.liberalcurrents.com/parental-rig...liberalcurrents.com"Parental Rights" and the Authoritarian FamilyFor advocates of "parental rights," family autonomy becomes both reward and weapon, extended to those who conform and withdrawn from those who do not. 2149
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 15/03/2026In my book (out Aug!) I call cultural panics about absent fatherhood “patriarchal anxieties.” Patriarchal anxieties being so prevalent on screen this year is yet another data point that we are living through a moment of profound political crisis. 001
Reposted by Howell WilliamsMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 15/03/2026New Substack post: this year’s Oscar nominees are about either absent fathers, and democratic backsliding. So I thought: why not do the annual Oscars roundup about the two themes? This is part two, about the "crisis of fathers". someunpleasant.substack.com/p/fatherless...someunpleasant.substack.comFatherless BehaviorIt's every man for himself where I come from. That's just how I grew up. 0346
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Congrats AJ! So glad to see this project generating scholarship. 110
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026potential next project: participant observation in the cult of mother god 010
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026renewing my passport...state dept says this is an example of an unacceptably digitally altered image. laying off the colloidal silver for a while just to be safe. travel.state.gov/content/trav... 120
Reposted by Howell WilliamsWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Five years ago. 10458233389
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 10/12/2025I'm a NSSR Politics PhD, would love to collaborate on an alum response if you hear anything 010
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Very sad to hear of major restructuring (decimation) taking place at my alma mater NSSR. They’ve given faculty 12 days to decide whether to uproot their lives and voluntarily leave the university (before, presumably, they are pushed out) 050
Reposted by Howell WilliamsMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs. 152417685
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Randomly caught 60 Minutes tonight, first watch post-Weiss appointment at CBS… Story 1: Drum beating war with Venezuela Story 2: Anti-science MAHA “longevity medicine” promo Story 3: Supernatural mind reader who guessed Joe Rogan’s PIN code 110
Reposted by Howell WilliamsGeoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 26/10/2025I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day 4112559868
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Modernist beauties in Stamford CT designed by architect Victor H. Bisharat 121
Reposted by Howell WilliamsA Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier. 630388
Reposted by Howell WilliamsLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comFrom Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at homeFascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies 14444171
Reposted by Howell WilliamsCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/09/2025During a lightning round at an event tonight, Bari Weiss asked Amy Coney Barrett to describe each of her colleagues with one word. Answers: Roberts: Chief Thomas: Laugh Alito: Grandfather Sotomayor: Lively Kagan: Analytical Gorsuch: Out West Kavanaugh: Sports Jackson: (long pause) Actor … Broadway 11924744
Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 04/09/2025"I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag"....absolutely grim Toxic masculinity quite literally killing this country. 020
