Charles Williams is an Associate Professor in political science and labor studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. His research focuses on U.S. labor politics, radicalism and political culture in the 1930s, and more recently on the politics of alternative economic development in the contemporary United States. 

Research/Teaching Areas: U.S. politics, community and labor organizing, labor history.

Current Projects/Research: Mark Pendras and Charles Williams, “Wrestling with the local ambitions of the far right," Dialogues in Urban Research (forthcoming). 

Charles Williams and Mark Pendras, “Questioning Pandemic Recovery: A Regional Second City Perspective,” Urban Studies 2025 62(2), pp. 387-403.