Kyle Edward Williams is an award-winning historian of the modern United States and the world, with broad interests in economic life, politics, ideas, public policy, and culture. His research and teaching traverse the late nineteenth-, twentieth-, and early twenty-first centuries and have tended to focus on the history of capitalism in general and the corporation in particular.

His book Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle For the Soul of the Corporation ​(February, 2024) is a history of corporate social responsibility that examines how different groups, from managers and business intellectuals to activists on the political left and right, have struggled over the social obligations of business.

Senior editor of The Hedgehog Review, he is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His work has been published or featured in the Washington Post, Vox, The New Republic, In These Times, The Baffler, and Jacobin. He holds a PhD in history from Rutgers University.

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