Michelle Williams

Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching - Graduate Level, 2007

Nominated by: George Allen

Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Michelle Williams earned her B.A. from Emory University and her M.A. and PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia, and has taught at UConn since 1996. A clinical psychologist, her research interests are ethnic and racial identity development, multicultural psychology, rape attributions, relationship violence, and the effects of alcohol expectancies on victimization risk. In 2002, she was awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.

Michelle served as the Associate Director of Clinical Training in 2002 and became the Director of Clinical Training and Clinical Division Head in 2003. She is actively involved in graduate and undergraduate education, advising more than 30 undergraduates and 8 graduate students each year. She serves as the faculty advisor for the Minority Advancement Program in Psychology (MAPP), a mentor program designed to prepare ethnic minority students for graduate school and professional careers in psychology. In addition to working with her own graduate students, she served as an associate advisor on seven dissertations and six Masters Committees. In 1999, she received the American Association of University Professors' Excellence Award for Teaching Promise.

Updated: 2007