William King

Professor
B.A., Kent State University
M.A., University of Akron
Ph.D., Syracuse University – Afroamerican Studies

My past and current research has had to do with Afroamerican life and history in the United States broadly described. More particularly, I have focused on questions of education and social justice, the black experience in the Trans-Mississippi West, in science, technology and society, and in the cities of this nation. Presently, I am working on a history of black Denver for which I have an advance contract from the University Press of Colorado.

As I see it and have been told by others, my basic contribution to the field of Afroamerican Studies has been the elucidation of an Afrocentric approach to an exploration of the life and history of black people in this society as previously noted. What I mean by this is that the world view, normative assumptions, and frames of reference employed in my research flow from the historical experiences and folk wisdom of black people as they have chose to make meaning of those experiences.

It is my intention to incorporate my findings into the courses I teach to better share my understandings of the worlds I inhabit with my students to more effectively catalyze their own processes of self-realization.

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