Desmond King DLitt FBA

Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government, University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow Nuffield College, 2002-. Formerly Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics, St John's College, Oxford.

Awards and Distinctions

Member, American Philosophical Society, elected 2022.
Member, National Academy of Social Insurance, elected 2019.
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2017.
Fellow, Academia Europaea, elected 2016.
Fellow, Royal Historical Society, elected 2015.
Member, Royal Irish Academy / Acadamh Rioga na hEireann, elected 2014.
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, (elected 2013.
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, elected 2005.
Fellow, British Academy, elected 2003.

John S. Saden Visiting Professor of Political Science, Yale University, 2023-24.
Visiting Part-time Professor, Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, EUI, Florence 2022.
Fellow, Straus Institute for Advanced Study, NYU School of Law 2013-14.
Major Research Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust (3 year buy-out), 2005-08.
Research Readership, British Academy, (2 year buy-out), 2000-02.

Recent Publications

• America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair. With Rogers M Smith. Chicago:
  University of Chicago Press, 2024.
• Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive. With Stephen
  Skowronek and John Dearborn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation. New York: Oxford University Press,
  2005; paperback 2006.
• Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy. Cambridge
  MASS: Harvard University Press, 2000; paperback 2002.
• Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the US Federal Government. Oxford and New
  York: Oxford University Press, 1995; paperback edition 1997. New edition &
  Postscript, 2007.