Dr. Julie Ann Stuart Williams
- Position: Professor
- Department: Business Administration
- Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 328
- jawilliams@uwf.edu
- Campus: 850.474.2283
Biography
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 business student learning. At UWF 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. In 2017, she was awarded the University Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, while in 2024, she was awarded the President’s Award for Exemplary Online Teaching.
Williams 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, among others. She currently serves on the editorial board of INFORMS Transactions on Education and 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 2013-2023.
Williams earned a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a registered professional engineer in Ohio. She has received the E. W. Hopkins Faculty Development Award and two Dyson Awards for Excellence in Research from the UWF College of Business.
