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Nadya Williams

CURRENT Managing Editor Nadya Williams wins public life fellowship

John Fea   |  February 3, 2025

Congratulations to Nadya Williams for her selection as Center for Christianity & Public Life “Public Life Fellowship.” The Public Life Fellowship Program is a nine-month program serving an intergenerational class of Christians interested in intensive, community-based learning about the intersection […]

History is one of the largest majors at conservative Hillsdale College. Why?

John Fea   |  December 9, 2023

Conservative pundit and First Things senior editor Mark Bauerlein seems to have discovered that the number of history majors in the United States is in steep decline: Here is a link to the 2021 piece he references. The low number […]

Daniel K. Williams is the new Director of Teacher Programs at The Ashbrook Center at Ashland University

John Fea   |  July 5, 2023

A big congratulations to Current contributing editor Daniel K. Williams who was just appointed the Director of Teacher Programs at The Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Dan is leaving his post at the University of West Georgia to assume the […]

Nadya Williams on leaving academia

John Fea   |  May 10, 2023

Readers of Current will know Nadya Williams as our book review editor and lead blogger at The Arena. But she also spent the last fifteen years (following her Ph.D at Princeton) teaching ancient history at the University of West Georgia. […]

Check out Current‘s new “Reviews” section

John Fea   |  March 31, 2023

We publish a lot of book reviews in Current features section. For those of you who love books and ideas that come from books, we have gathered all of our reviews and placed them under the “Reviews” tag above. Enjoy! […]

“The Arena” is coming to Current

John Fea   |  January 31, 2023

The text "The Arena" superimposed over a stylized image of the Roman Coliseum.

When you wake up on Wednesday morning and point your browser to Current you will notice a change on the home page. Starting February 1, 2022, Current will be hosting a new blog called “The Arena.” It is a group […]

Editorial changes at Current

John Fea   |  December 1, 2022

As Executive Editor, I am pleased to announce the following changes to our editorial staff: Nadya Williams, Professor of Ancient History at the University of West Georgia, moves from Current Contributing Editor to Book Review Editor. Nadya received her B.A. […]

A Current contributing editor on writing and motherhood in a pandemic

John Fea   |  April 19, 2022

Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, historian Nadya Williams writes about how the pandemic provided her with more opportunities to write. We at Current are thrilled about this. Earlier this year Nadya joined our team of contributing editors! (Check […]