Current Concerns
- Developing high touch human/digital interface services
- Refining the accumulation, disaggregation and digital conversion of human analog and digital content
- Developing Python web services
- Reflecting on the Weimarization of American society
- Engaging the power of film
Current Web Dev
American Jazzscapes of the Middle East - Python-centric web app
Peacemaking with Preschoolers - More pure html/css structured book app
About
A scholar, an autodidact, a polyglot, Steven C. Williams has worked extensively and intensively as a technologist in education. His academic background combined with his talents in the digital realm have allowed him to develop a unique skillset both inside and outside academia.
Interests
- Social networks and learning
- Digital power and social equity
- Brazilian history and politics
Experience
Information Technology Consultant – Expert
June 1999 – May 2025 California State University, Dominguez Hills | Carson, California
Hired as an emergency replacement for a part-time summer contract, the job morphed into a full management position Learning Management Systems (Blackboard and, later, Canvas). Played key role developing the entire campus learning management infrastructure including: planning, analyzing, deploying, maintenance and help desk.
CALIS - USC
June 1996 – current University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California
Using MySQL, PHP and HTML, developed online learning databases for the CALIS international studies program
Program Consultant
Jun 2015 – Nov 2018 AIDS Project Los Angeles | Los Angeles, California
Helped the APLA team develop in-house training modules for clients throughout the greater Southern California region.
Adjunct Professor
Sep 1994 – May 1995 Loyola Marymount University, Department of History | Los Angeles, California
Taught a variety of courses on the history of Latin America and Brazil. Experimented with email-based assignment submission from students which was a first of its kind at LMU.
Adjunct Professor
Sep 1993 – May 1994 University of New Mexico, Department of History | Albuquerque, New Mexico
Taught a variety of courses on the history of Latin America and Brazil.
Adjunct Professor
Sep 1991 – May 1992 Middlebury College, Department of History | Middlebury, Vermont
Taught a variety of courses on the history of Latin America and Brazil.
Program Coordinator
Jun 1988 – May 1999 UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs (ISOP) | Los Angeles, California
Developed annual ISOP summer programs for local area K-12 teachers on Latin America between 1988-1999. Beginning in 1996, worked intensively on developing the first online web presence for the Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Education
PhD in History, 1994
University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation: “Prelude for Disaster: The Politics and Structures of Urban Hygiene in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1860,” Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.
BA in History, 1985
California State University, Fullerton
Skills
Languages
English | Portuguese | Spanish
Computational
Python | HTML | CSS
Kinetic
reading | photography | short and long distance travel | gardening
Publications
- “Leading the Cohort across the Divide: Recent Best Practices to Enhance Cohort Teaching and Learning,” in Crossing the Bridge of the Digital Divide A Walk with Global Leaders, ed. Anthony H. Normore and Antonia Issa Lahera (Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing, 2018).
- “Nationalism and Public Health: The Convergence of Rockefeller Foundation Technique and Brazilian Federal Authority During the Time of Yellow Fever, 1925-1930,” in Missionaries of Science: The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America, ed. Marcos Cueto (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1994).
- “The International Health Board and Changing Urban/Rural Relations in Brazil,” Research Reports for the Rockefeller Archive Center, Spring 1990.
Contact
Quote
“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed." -– Melville, Moby Dick