Terry Williams (sociologist)

Terry Williams is a sociologist, academic and author whose work includes urban social policy and related fields. He founded the Harlem Writers Crew Project.

Terry Williams
Education	PhD 1978, City University of New York
Main interests	sociology

Publications (Books)

• Williams, Terry; Kornblum, William Kornblum (1985). Growing Up Poor. New York: Macmillan Company/Lexington Books.Ginzberg, Eli; Williams, Terry; Dutka, Anna (1989). Does Job Training Work?. Boulder: Westview Press.
• Williams, Terry (1989). The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishers. Translations: French (1990), Japanese (1991)
• Williams, Terry; Kornblum, Williams (1994). The Uptown Kids Struggle and Hope in the Projects. New York: Grosset/Putnam. ISBN 9780399138874. Review, Publishers Weekly
• Williams, Terry (1992). Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line. New York: Penguin Books. Translations: French (1994)
• Williams, Terry; Milton, Trevor (2015). The Con Men: Hustling In New York City. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Williams, Terry (2016). Harlem Supers: The Social Life of a Community in Transition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Williams, Terry (2017). Teenage Suicide Notes. An Ethnography of Self-Harm. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Daynes, Sarah; Williams, Terry (2018). On Ethnography. London: Polity Press.
• Williams, Terry (2020). Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club. New York: Columbia University Press. It was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews
• Williams, Terry (2020). The Vanishing Indian Upper Class: Life History of Raza Mohammed Khan. London: Anthem Press.

Early life and career

Williams received his Ph.D. in sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Prior to this, he got his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum Laude, from Richmond College. He has been a professor at Princeton University and Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City.