Thomas Chatterton Williams

Thomas Chatterton Williams is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a visiting professor of humanities at Bard College, and a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of “Self-Portrait in Black and White” and the upcoming book “Nothing Was the Same: The Pandemic Summer of George Floyd and the Shift in Western Consciousness.” Williams is a visiting professor of the humanities and a senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, Le Monde, and many other places, and has been collected in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing.