Professor Desmond King FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2003
- Subjects
- Politics
Summary
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.
Current post
Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government, University of Oxford
Past appointments
St John's College, University of Oxford Professor of Politics and Fellow
1991 - 2002
London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Lecturer
1988 - 1991
Publications
Fed Power: How Finance Wins
L R Jacobs and Desmond King - Published in 2016 by Oxford University Press
Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in Twentieth Century North America
Randall Hansen and Desmond King - Published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press
Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama's America
Desmond King and Rogers M Smith - Published in 2011 by Princeton University Press
Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Government
Desmond King - Published in 2007 by Oxford University Press
The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation
Desmond King - Published in 2006 by Oxford University Press
Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origin of the Diverse Democracy
Desmond King - Published in 2000 by Harvard University Press
Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Welfare and Unemployment in Britain and the USA
Desmond King - Published in 1995 by University of Chicago Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Tariq Modood FBA
Theory and politics of multiculturalism, secularism, Islamophobia, racial equality; sociology of ethnic minorities in higher education and employment; with special reference to Muslims in Western Europe
Professor Kristian Gleditsch FBA
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