• Environmental and social justice
• Critical hope and climate change action
• Sustainable development
• Influences of climate change, migration, and violence on rural livelihoods
• Intersectionality, masculinities, new feminisms, and empowerment
• Scholarship of teaching and learning

PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology concentrating in Tropical Conservation & Development 2016University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
MS in Instructional Systems Design 2006Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
BS in Music Education 2001Stetson University, DeLand, FL

Dr. Becky Williams is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. She teaches in the Environmental Studies; Global Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Integrative Studies programs. Her most recent research focuses on critical hope as a key missing link in climate change resilience. In addition, she researches the impacts of climate change on rural and indigenous livelihoods in Central America, and how it impacts livelihood pathways. She also conducts research on gender and development projects (e.g., women's empowerment initiatives, gender-based violence mitigation) through the lens of contemporary critical feminist critiques of development including intersectionality, masculinities, and decoloniality.