Anne Williams\u2019 career includes work as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, and as an economics researcher at the World Bank, the Brookings Institution, and the Federal Reserve Board.\u00a0 After completing her doctorate she taught at the University of Pennsylvania and served on Capitol Hill as a Research Director for the House Select Committee on Population.<\/p>\n
She came to Bates as Department Chair in 1981.\u00a0 Here she taught Population Economics, Health Economics, Economic Policy Debates, Economy and Society in the Great Depression, as well as Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Statistics and other core courses.\u00a0 She became a Professor Emerita upon her retirement in 2008.<\/p>\n
Her early research dealt with determinants of fertility in the United States.\u00a0 She served on the National Research Council\u2019s Committee on Population 1983-86.\u00a0 She currently is studying the history of the American toy and puzzle industry.\u00a0 She has curated major exhibitions of jigsaw puzzles at the Bates College Museum of Art (1988), the National Heritage Museum (Lexington, Mass. 1996), and the Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, N.Y., 2000-01). She is listed in Who\u2019s Who in Economics and served on the National Toy Hall of Fame Selection Committee 2014-2019.<\/p>\n
She has appeared as a jigsaw puzzle expert on PBS\u2019s History Detectives, Martha Stewart Living, BBC Radio 4, CBS News Sunday Morning, and several other broadcasts. In 2007 the Association for Games and Puzzles International presented her with its Spilsbury Award for lifetime achievement. The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y. now houses the bulk of her extensive collection of puzzles, as well as her comprehensive research materials on the puzzle industry.<\/p>\n
Education:<\/b><\/u>
\nPh.D. in Economics, University of Chicago
\nM.A. in Economics, University of Chicago
\nA.B. in Economics, Smith College<\/p>\n
Selected publications:<\/b><\/u>
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