Desmond King DLitt FBA
Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government
Desmond King is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford. He has published twelve books and dozens of papers in top journals, many of which have been reprinted in edited collections. His research has explained the role of segregation in the US federal goverment and the enduring significance of its effects; why New Right ideology arose in 1980s Britain and the US; how racial inequality shaped American immigration policy; how eugenic policies amongst other illiberal schemes emerged in the US, Canada and the UK in the first half of the twentieth century; and how the executive state dealt with governance challenges during GOP populism. His main projects at present are: (a) with Rogers M. Smith, the reconfiguration of America's pro and anti civil rights policy alliances this century, the subject of their 2024 book America's New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair with University of Chicago Press; (b) with Gerda Hooijer, political elites' stances toward the role of legacies of racial-ethnic hierarchies in immigration policy; (c) with Lawrence Jacobs, redistribution and the social rights of citizenship in central bank policies; (d) with Robert Lieberman, the federal government and civil rights enforcement since the middle of the twentieth century; and (e) how the American state manages political violence. He has contributed op-eds to the Financial Times, the New York Times and Le Monde Diplomatique, and his research has been cited in these and other outlets including the Washington Post.
He is an elected Fellow of many national learned societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, as well as the British Academy and the Royal Irish Academy.
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E: desmond.king@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
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