Williams, Priya (b. 1983, Birmingham) is a historian of South Asian urban memory whose work bridges microhistory and material culture. She studied history at the University of Oxford and completed a PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru University on the social worlds of Himalayan hill stations. From 2012 to 2019 she taught at the University of Delhi, where she co-founded an oral-history lab documenting post-Partition neighborhoods. She later served as a consultant to the Himachal Pradesh State Archives, curating community collections and training field archivists. Her essays have appeared in History Workshop Journal, The Caravan, and Himal Southasian. She lives between Delhi and Birmingham and leads workshops on ethical archives, vernacular photography, and the histories held in ordinary rooms.
