Mark A. E. Williams

Mark A. E. Williams is a past president of the Religious Communication Association and a professor of rhetoric at California State University, Sacramento, where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in communication and religion, rhetorical criticism, and the history of rhetoric with an emphasis on the premodern era. His writings include “St. Socrates, Pray for Us: Rhetoric and the Physics of Being Human” in Rhetoric in the Twenty-first Century: An Interactive Oxford Symposium; “From Here to Eternity: The Cost of Misreading Plato’s Religion” in The Global Landscape of Faith; and "Substantive Discourse" in Humility and Hospitality: Changing the Christian Conversation on Civility.

He has been the recipient of research fellowships at both Oxford University and the École Biblique et Archéologique de Jérusalem.