Williams, J. A., & Pirlet, C. D. (2021). Developing global awareness and empathy through the teaching of the Nanjing atrocities. Oregon Journal of the Social Studies, 9(2), 12-23.
Williams, J. A., & Johnson, M. (2020). Comfort women: Enhancing students' global awareness through human rights education. The Social Studies, 111(5), 226-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2020.1749016
Williams, J. A., Reeves, D. C., & Wright, P. M. (2019). Civil War drummer boys: Integrating music into social studies. Middle Level Learning, 65, 2-7.
Williams, J. A. (2019). HERstory: When we were at war. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 31(3), 24-28.
Williams, J. A., & Reeves, D. (2017). If musical instruments could talk: Teaching about history through musical instruments. Oregon Journal of the Social Studies, 5(1), 57-72.
An, J. (2015). Micro-study reveals flaws in pedagogy: A study of social promotion in Tianjin, China. International Education, 44(2), 23-43.
Doppen, F. H., & An, J. (2014). Student teaching abroad: Enhancing global awareness. International Education, 43(2), 59-75.
Refereed Book Chapters
Williams, J. A., Pirlet, C. D., & Johnson, M. (2022). Teaching about the Nanjing Safety Zone to introduce human rights. In L. M. Harris, M. Sheppard, and S. A. Levy (Eds.), Teaching difficulty histories in difficult times: Stories of practices (pp. 41-51). Teacher College Press.
Williams, J. A. & Johnson, M. (2020). What were the psychological motivations of Nanjing Safety Zone Committee? In B. Maguth and G. Wu (Eds.), Global learning with the C3 framework in the K-12 social studies classroom (pp. 72-82). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429331497-9
Williams, J.A., & Gapp, S. (2017). Lesson plan: Counting on Grace. In A. S. Libresco, J. Balantic, & M. Battenfeld (Eds.), Notable books, notable lessons: Putting social studies in the K-8 curriculum (pp. 45-54). ABC-CLIO.
Williams, J. A., & Johnson, M. (2017). The Nanjing safety zone: The dilemma of creating a protective wall. In R. Diem, & M. Berson (Eds.), Mending walls: Historical, socio-political, economic and geographic perspectives (pp. 159-174). Information Age Publishing.
Guest Editor
Williams, J. A. (2020). Guest editor's note research on international social studies education. Journal of Social Studies Research, 44(4), 323-324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssr.2020.08.001
Williams, J. A. (2018). Elmer J. Wallace. In J. A. Williams (Ed.), Hometown’s fallen: Discovering the human aspects of wars (pp. 12-35). Pressing Matters.
Williams, J. A., & Johnson, M. (2021). Lesson plan: comfort women. In Remembering the “comfort women”: A teacher’s guide and source set for educating high school students about the Japanese imperial military’s “comfort women” system before & during World War II & the ongoing fight for justice (series no. 2). Comfort Women Action for Redress and Education (CARE) & Comfort Women Justice Coalition (CWJC).
Williams, J. A., & Johnson, M. (2021). Lesson plan on comfort women. Center for Korean Studies, University of California at Los Angeles.