Dr Rachel Williams

Dr Rachel Williams teaches American history, with a particular focus on the social history of the 19th century.

She is author of Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront (2024) and co-editor, with Dr Ben Offiler, of American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad: New Directions in the History of Giving (2022). She is the Secretary for the Association of British Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) and served as Secretary of the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) between 2018 and 2023. She is currently working on a project about uses and meanings of military uniforms during and after the American Civil War.