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Tiffany King is the Barbara and John Glynn Research Professor in Democracy and Equity and an Associate Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2013 with a Women’s Studies Certificate, her M.A. in Sociology of Education from the University of Toronto in 2007, and her B.A. from the University of Virginia School of Architecture in 1998. Prior to her current position, King served as Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Affiliate Faculty in African American Studies at Georgia State University from 2020 to 2021, and as Assistant Professor there from 2013 to 2020. She previously worked as an Instructor in American Studies at the University of Maryland from 2009 to 2013.

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.