For the 2016-17 academic year, she is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, where she is completing her book manuscript, “Subversive Habits: The Untold Story of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States.” In a guest blog on Patheos in December of 2014, Williams publicly criticized the U.S. Catholic theologians’ statement on racial injustice that initially excluded black women and girls as victims and opponents of state and vigilante violence. Her critique prompted an apology and correction.