Roger Lawrence Williams | |
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| Born | June 22, 1923 |
| Died | July 4, 2017 (aged 94) |
| Nationality | American |
| Title | Distinguished Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Thesis | The Duc de Morny and Franco-Russian Relations, 1856-63 (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | André Lobanov-Rostovsky[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Minnesota State University, Mankato; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michigan State University; Antioch College; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Wyoming |
| Main interests | French political history, especially the time of Napoleon III; Botany |
Roger Lawrence Williams (June 22, 1923 – July 4, 2017), was an American historian with major interests in French political history, particularly the Second Empire associated with Napoleon III. He served on the faculty in History departments at several universities, becoming department head at three. He was a founding member of the Society for French Historical Studies. In later years he developed a keen interest in botany, and wrote extensively on that subject, especially its early history in France. Williams did not marry and left his estate to the Wyoming Community Foundation.[2][3][4]