Dr. Julie Ann Williams

Dr. Julie Ann Stuart Williams, a Professor in the Department of Business Administration, has conducted research on bulk recycling planning, returns processing, rehabilitation patient attendance factors, and methods to improve student learning. On her first sabbatical, she led a collaboration with faculty in the College of Business, the Writing Lab, and Career Services, to analyze the relationship between student business writing over multiple courses and student use of university-provided writing support services. The findings support engaging students in repeated practice of business writing and were published in Journal of Education for Business. On her second sabbatical, she conducted research in contextual learning, scaffolded instruction, analytics translation, and multimedia testing. In 2017, she was awarded the University Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award and in 2024, she was honored with the President's Award in Exemplary Online Teaching. She has mentored undergraduate and graduate students, completed the UWF Office of Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Workshop and co-authored papers with mentees in prestigious journals that include European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, and elsewhere. She currently serves on the editorial board of INFORMS Transactions on Education and on the INFORMS Committee on Teaching and Learning. She served as the faculty advisor of the UWF Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society from 2013 to 2023. Williams has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.