William "Bill" Watkins was born in Harlem, New York and raised in South-central Los Angeles. A former high school teacher, he completed the Ph.D in 1986, University of Illinois at Chicago. Bill served on the College of Education and Black Studies faculties at the University of Utah before returning to the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995. Bill is the author of The White Architects of Black Education (2001), lead editor of Race and Education (2001). Numerous articles, chapters, essays and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals, books, encyclopedias and the popular press. Bill has presented papers, lectured and traveled widely throughout North America, Central America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. His life's work is dedicated to equality, social justice and peace.
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