African American Studies would like to congratulate Sophia Williams who won the 2025 Terry Kershaw Undergraduate Student Essay Contest for her paper “From Colonial Injustice to Contemporary Challenges: Unraveling the Complex Narratives of Beauty, Body Image, and Anti-Blackness among African American Women.”
Sophia is a 2023-2024 AFAM Mellon Scholar and AFAM Honors student with a double major in African American Studies and Sociology.