Kim-Eric Williams is a lecturer in Swedish and Director of the Swedish Language Program. In the spring 2006, he taught SCND 103 "Intermediate Swedish I", followed by SCND 104 "Intermediate Swedish I" taught in the spring 2007. In the fall 2007, he teaches SCND 101 "Elementary Swedish I".

Educated at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, PA, he received a Doctor of Ministry from the Graduate Theological Foundation at Notre Dame, IN in Ecumenics. He was ordained by the Lutheran Church in America in 1969 and served congregations in New Jersey and Connecticut as well as serving as a Priest in the Church of Sweden at Täby in the Stockholm Diocese and as a staff official for the Division of World Mission and Ecumenism of the Lutheran church at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

Dr. Williams is the 31st Governor of the Swedish Colonial Society, where he has served as the Chaplain and Archivist of the Society, organizing and creating a Finding Guide to the collections of the Society. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia and edits their newsletter, Archives Advocate. He has also been the editor of the Swedish Colonial News for six years and the translator and Assistant Editor of the Gloria Dei Records Project for the past eight years.

Williams has been involved with a number of books, articles, and presentations. Through his work on the Board of the New Sweden Centre of Wilmington he wrote "The Eight Old Swedes Churches of New Sweden", and through his work with the Lutheran Archives Center, "The Journey of Justus Falckner", the story of the first Swedish Ordination in America. Last year he edited Hans Ling's "Faces of New Sweden." He is a member of many area Swedish organizations and historical societies including the Augustana Heritage Association and the Anglican-Lutheran International Society.

updated August 2007