Rate My Professor Tiffany King

King’s scholarship is animated by abolitionist and decolonial traditions within Black Studies and Native/Indigenous Studies. Her research interests include African diaspora studies, Black feminisms, Black gender and sexuality studies, Black geographies and ecologies, abolitionist traditions, Black organizing traditions, Native/Indigenous feminisms, and anti-colonial and decolonial studies. She is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019), which received the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association in 2020 and was a finalist for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. King co-edited Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism (Duke University Press, 2020). Her forthcoming book, Red and Black Alchemies of Flesh: Conjuring a Decolonial and Abolitionist Now, examines connective threads between Black queer feminist and Indigenous/Native queer feminist traditions through an analytics of the flesh. Key peer-reviewed articles include “Some Black feminist notes on Native feminisms and the flesh” (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2021), “The Labor of (re)Reading Plantation Landscapes Fungible(ly)” (Antipode, 2016), “New World Grammars: The ‘Unthought’ Black Discourses of Conquest” (Theory & Event, 2016), and “Humans Involved: Lurking in the Lines of Posthumanist Flight” (Critical Ethnic Studies, 2017). In 2023, she received the University of Virginia Research Achievement Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities. King co-directs the Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute at UVA and is affiliated with the Carter G. Woodson Institute and American Studies.