katrina quisumbing king
Assistant Professor of Sociology on leave AY 23-24
- kqk@northwestern.edu
- 1808 Chicago Ave, Room 209
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Area(s) of Interest
Race and Ethnicity, Migration and Citizenship, Imperialism and Colonialism, State-making, Law and Society, Theory
Biography
katrina quisumbing king (surname: quisumbing king, pronounced kiss-uhm-bing king) studies racial classification and exclusion from a historical perspective that foregrounds the state’s authority to manage populations. She is particularly interested in the ways state actors conceive of and make decisions around race and citizenship. Her research recenters empire as a key political formation. In the U.S. context, she focuses especially on how the state defines colonized populations and how these people fit into the U.S. racial order.
Professor Quisumbing King earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Prior to joining Northwestern, she spent two years as a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Southern California.
Courses Taught
SOCIOL 101: Race, Law, and Belonging in the United States
SOCIOL 304: Politics of Racial Knowledge
SOCIOL 376: Empire
SOCIOL 398: Senior Thesis Seminar
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