Dr. Tom Williams

Novelist, Editor, English Professor, Department Chair, and now Dean: Tom Williams has covered a lot of territory in higher education since he accepted a scholarship to play basketball at Ashland University in 1984. He worked at four different universities before joining UCA in 2018 as Dean of Liberal Arts. An instrumental leader in the formation of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, he has been the Dean since 2020.

He lives in Conway with his wife, Carmen Edington, and their children, Finn and Daphne.

To learn more about Dean Williams’s academic endeavors, consult his Curriculum Vitae.