Desmond King

Desmond King, PhD DLitt is Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford, Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford and Emeritus Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford. He earned his BA (1st cl, Bastable Prize) in Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin in 1979, his MA (1981, Minar Award) and PhD (1985) in Political Science from Northwestern University, and his DLitt (2015) from Oxford University. He previously held tenured positions at the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics, served as President of the Politics & History Section of the Amer Pol Sc Assoc, and was a Delegate (and Finance Committee member) at Oxford University Press. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the Academy of Social Sciences, the British Academy, and the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. the NAS, the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Royal Irish Academy. Awards include a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, a Nuffield Foundation Social Science Fellowship, and a British Academy Social Science Research Readership.