- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2003
King has held numerous research grants including a Nuffield Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship (1997-98), a British Academy Research Readership (2000-2002), and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2005-2008). Aside from his fellowship of the British Academy King has been elected a fellow of numerous learned societies including the Royal Irish Academy, Academia Europaea, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance and the American Philosophical Society. He was a Fellow of NYU Law School’s Strauss Center in 2013-14. King holds a DLitt in Politics from the University of Oxford.