Together with Nancy Abelmann he ran the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Faculty and Student interdisciplinary seminar on the Ethnography of the University in 2003-04. Bill also co-taught the first "Ethnography of the University" course in the Department of Anthropology. Bill's interests in narrative and networks were critical to the intellectual shape that EUI took. Bill was also an active member of EBC, the Ethnography of the Brown Commemoration. Bill recently taught an EUI course at Syracuse.