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 DEBORAH K. KING
E-mail: Deborah.K.King@Dartmouth.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology
Dartmouth College
6104 Silsby - Room 107
Hanover, NH 03755
603-646-3410
Northwestern University, B. A., 1975
Yale University, Ph. D., 1982
Courses Taught at Dartmouth
- Socy 20 Sociology of Law (syllabus)
- Socy 30 Deviance & Social Control (syllabus)
- Socy 31 Prisons: The American Way of Punishment (syllabus)
- Socy 32 The Social Meanings of Home (syllabus)
- Socy 43 Dangerous Intersections: Race, Class and Gender (syllabus)
- Socy 46 Constructing Black Womanhood (syllabus)
- Socy 91 The Sociological Imagination
Selected Publications
“Constructing Virtue: Gender and the Popular Visualization of Women Prisoners, 1890s-1940," Special Issue of Gender & History: Visual Gender, Patricia Hayes, Special Editor (invited submission, under review)
“Your Blues Aren’t Like Mine: Women and the Prison-House in Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk", to be included in a book edited by Nellie Y. McKay & Craig H. Werner in what will be the launch volume for a new University of Wisconsin Press forthcoming series on African American culture, history, and society.
"Missing the Beat, Unraveling the Threads: Class and Gender in Afro-American Social Issues." The Black Scholar, Special Issue: Afro-American Studies in the Twenty-first Century, The Wisconsin Conference on Afro American Studies, v22 n3 Summer 1992 : 36-44.
"Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of Black Feminist Ideology." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Autumn 1988: 88-111. Reprinted in more than ten anthologies.
Works in Progress
Improvisational Politics: Race, Class and Gender and the Political Aesthetics of Black Womanhood (book-length manuscript)
"Wish You Were Here': Promoting Corrections and the Representation of Prison Life on Postcards, 1900-1950" (Book-length manuscript)
"Improvisational Aesthetics in African American Quilting and Identity," "Held Captive: Constructions of African American Women's Incarceration."
Faculty Research and Teaching Interests
- African American women's political ideology and activism
- Race, class and gender dynamics
- Sociology of law
- Deviance and social control
- Cultural Sociology and visual culture
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