CURRICULUM
VITAE
(Through April 2008)
NAME: William
M. King
http://spot.colorado.edu~kingwm/
ADDRESS: 2560
Dutch Court 339
UCB
Lafayette,
CO 80026-9178 Boulder,
CO 80309-0339
Phones: Home (720) 890-5008 Office
(303) 492-8189
Fax:
(720) 890-0142 Fax:
(303) 492-7799
BIRTHDATE: 11 February 1940
EDUCATION: Ph. D., Social Sciences, Maxwell Graduate School
of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, May, 1974.
M.A.,
Urban Studies, University of Akron, June, 1970.
B.A.,
Psychology, Kent State University, August, 1966.
DOCTORAL
DISSERTATION TITLE:
"Ghetto
Riots and the Employment of Blacks: An Answer to the Search for Black Political
Power?" ©
1973.
MASTER'S
THESIS TITLE:
"Black
Recognition on the White Campus: The Case of San Francisco State College,
1968-1969."
AREAS
OF CONCENTRATION:
Afroamerican
Studies; Metropolitan Studies; Citizenship and Public Affairs;
Transdisciplinary Studies.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Going
to Meet A Man: Denver's Last Legal Public Execution, 27 July 1886
(Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado), 1990.
How
to Write Research Papers: A Guide for the Insecure.
(Boulder, CO: Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America), 1991
Chapters in books
"The
meaning of the Ghetto Riots of 1964-1967: Selected Explanations with
Criticism." In William M King, How To Write Research Papers: a guide for the
insecure. Boulder, CO: Center for
Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America, 1991, 55-79.
"Reconfiguring
Reality: Transcending the Quest for Cultural Homogeneity." In Charles E. Butler, ed., New
Directions for African-American Scholarship and Research: Colorizing The
"Canon." Proceedings of the National Research Conference on
African-American Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 19-21 November
1992, 54-61.
"W.E.B.
Du Bois: Scholar, Activist, Prophet and Symbol," Missouri Chautauqua:
Visions of America. St. Louis: Missouri Humanities Council,
1995 16-23.
"Triumphs of Tribalism: The American
University as a Reflection of Eurocentric Culture." In Benjamin P. Bowser,
Terry Jones, and Gale S. Aulletta, eds.,
Toward the Multicultural University. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995,
21-39.
"The
Early Years of Three Major Professional Black Studies Organizations." In
Delores P. Aldredge and Carlene Young, eds., Out of the Revolution: The
Development of Africana Studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000,
115-32.
"The
Importance of Black Studies for Science and Technology Policy," reprinted
in Nathaniel Norment, Jr., ed., The African American Studies Reader. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2001, 653-59.
"'Bloods': Teaching The Afroamerican Experience of the
Vietnam Conflict," in Michael Zeitlin and Paul Budra, eds., Soldier
Talk: The Vietnam War in Oral Narrative. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004, pp 183-96.
"So They Say": The World War II Colorado
Statesman Columns of Lieutenant
Earl W. Mann, in Arturo Aldama, Elisa Facio. Daryl Maeda, and Reiland Rabaka,
Editors, Telling Our Stories: Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado, in press.
Scholarly articles
"Black
Studies Challenge the Myths," Colorado Quarterly, XXII, 2 (Autumn 1973), 169-78.
"Social
Science Investigation: Some Questions from a Black Perspective,"UMOJA, o.s., I, 3 (Fall/Spring 1973/74), 44-49.
"Another
Side of the Black Studies Debacle: A Response with Some Comments,"Review
of Black Political Economy, 6, 2
(Winter 1976), 232-38.
With
Mariyawanda Nzuwah, "Afroamericans and U.S. Policy Towards Africa: An
Overview," Journal of Southern African Affairs, II, 2 (April 1977), 235-44.
"With
All Deliberate Speed: Old Wine in a New Bottle," UMOJA: A Scholarly Journal of Black Studies, n.s., III, 3 (Fall 1979), 157-74.
"The
End of An Era: Denver's Last Legal Public Execution, July 27, 1886," Journal
of Negro History, LXVIII, 1
(Winter 1983), 37-53.
"Black
Children, White Law: Black Efforts to Secure Public Education in Central City,
Colorado, 1864-1869," Essays and Monographs in Colorado History, (1984), 55-80.
"Guardian
of the Public Safety: Garret A. Morgan and the Lake Erie Crib Disaster," Journal
of Negro History, LXX, 1, 2
(Winter/Spring 1985), 1-13.
"The
Reemerging Revolutionary Consciousness of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., 1965-1968," Journal of Negro History, LXXI, 1, 2, 3, 4 (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
1986), 1-22.
"The
Afroamerican Scientist and Inventor: A Bibliographic Resource," Journal
of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
33, 3 (Summer 1987), 177-92.
"'Our
Men in Vietnam': Black Media as a Source of the Afroamerican Experience in
Southeast Asia,"Vietnam Generation, 1, 2 (Spring 1989), 94-117.
"Challenges
Across the Curriculum: Broadening the Bases of How Knowledge is Produced,"
American Behavioral Scientist,
34, 2 (November/December 1990), 165-80.
"The
Importance of Black Studies for Science and Technology Policy," Phylon, XLIX, 1, 2 (Spring/Summer 1992), 23-32.
"Hubert
Branch Crouch and the Origins of the National Institute of Science." The Journal of Negro History, LXXIX, 1 (Winter 1994), 18-33.
"Enhancing
Scientific and Technical Literacy in Afroamerican Communities." DES: A
Scholarly Journal of Ethnic Studies,
I, 1 (Spring 2000)
www.colorado.edu/EthnicStudies/ethnicstudiesjournal
"Doing
Du Bois: Summering On The Heartland Chautauqua Trail." DES: A Scholarly
Journal of Ethnic Studies, I, 2
(Fall 2002).
www.colorado.edu/EthnicStudies/ethnicstudiesjournal
"Creating Opportunities to Train the Mind: Public Schooling for Afroamericans in Territorial Denver, Colorado, 1861-1873." In Press, Colorado History.
. Essays and other creative writings
"On
Achieving Equality in Education: An Exercise in Grasping the Wind,"
Coloradan, LXXVII (1975), 56-57.
"Deficiencies
in the Public Schools: A Response," Denver Post, (2 October 1977), 24.
"We
Must Insure the Quest for Achievement," Kappa Alpha Psi Journal, LXIV, 4 (December 1978), 258-59.
"From
Behind the Veil," Weekly Column, Denver Weekly News, 29 January 1981 to May 1982. Totals about 50 columns each about 800
words on personalities, events, opinions, et al.
"Black
History Month: On Its Significance," KGNU Program Guide (February 1981), 3.
"A
Time for Black Renewal," Colorado Daily, 29, 283, (24 February 1981), 3.
"Technology
and the Afroamerican," Expressions, I, 2 (Spring 1982), 24-28.
"Reflections
on a Merger: EAS/STS," Science, Technology & Society Newsletter, 43 (September 1984), 10-11.
"What
Manner of Man?" Denver City Blues, 15 January
1986.
"Reflections
on a Talk by Martin Luther King, Jr." Odyssey West, 6, 1 (January/February 1987), 16-17, 35.
"Blacks
and the U.S. Constitution, "Ibid, 6, 5 (September/October 1987), 28-29.
"Keeping
Our Eyes on the Prize: The Years Since Memphis," Ibid, 7, 1 (January/February 1988), 26-27.
"Curriculum
Reform--Not Bussing: The Hidden Issue in School Desegregation," Ibid, 7, 3 (May/June 1988), 31-32.
"The
Black Family: Some Thoughts on an Afroamerican Social Institution," Ibid, 8, 1 (January/February 1989), 31-32.
"Death
of the Dreamer," Vietnam Generation Newsletter, 2, 3 (May 1991), 18-19.
"A
Firebell in the Night," Ibid,
3, 3 (November 1991), 25-27.
"What's
In A Name?" New Odyssey,
I, 1 (Spring 1992), 7-8.
"What
Do We Want?" Vietnam Generation, 4, 3-4 (Summer-Fall 1992), 83-85.
"Jackson
State College: The Lost Episode in Antiwar Protest," Vietnam Generation, 6, 1-2
(1994), 29.
"The
Long Hot Summers, Forty Years Later," H-Urban Discussion List, 25 July
2007.
Reviews and Review Essays:
Black
Leadership Fenced in By Racism.
The Journal of Afro-American Issues, III, 2 (May 1975), 246-47.
Race
and Economics. The Review of Black
Political Economy, 6, 3 (Spring
1976), 345-57.
Black
Students in Protest. The Journal
of Negro History, LXI, 4 (October
1976), 406-07.
Blacks
in the United States: A Geographic Perspective. UMOJA, n.s., I, 2 (Summer 1977), 99-102.
In
Search of Canann: Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80. Colorado Magazine, LVI, 1 & 2 (Fall/Spring 1979), pp 109-11.
With
David S. Hill, And We Are Not Saved; The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice. Denver Post,
29 November 1987, LA, 15.
Rethinking
the Curriculum: Toward an Integrated, Interdisciplinary College Education,
Journal of Higher Education, 63,
3 (May/June 1992), 360-61.
New
Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers,
1866-1900. Great Plains Quarterly,
13, 1 (Winter 1993), 48.
Conversations:
Straight Talk with America's Sister President. Journal of Negro Education, 62, 2 (Spring 1993), 213-14.
A
Hope in the Unseen. Mosaic, (Fall 1998), 18.
Distinguished
African American Scientists of the 20th Century. Isis, (December
1998), pp, 647-48.
The
Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body. Isis, April 1999, pp 408-09.
Frederick
Douglass: A Critical Reader. Philosophia Africana 4:2 (August 2001), 99-103.
The
African Philosophy Reader.
Philosophy Now, (June/July
2000), 42-43.
An
American Health Dilemma; A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem
of Race. Isis, (March 2002), 98-99.
Race,
Science and Medicine, 1700-1960. Isis, (December 2002), p 642.
Paul
Robeson: Essays on His Life and Legacy. Journal of African American History, 91, 1 (Winter 2006), pp 101-02.
Before
Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I. H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu,
(March 2007).
Bibliographies
Black
Labor in the Cities: A Selected Bibliography. Monticello, IN:
Council of Planning Librarians, 1974.
Health,
Health Care and the Black Community: An Exploratory Bibliography. Ibid.
Blacks,
Crime and Criminal Justice: An Introductory Bibliography. Ibid.
Urban
Racial Violence: An Historical and Comparative Bibliography. Ibid.
"The
Black West: A Selected Annotated Bibliography with Study Guide." Mimeo, 1978. 50 pp.
"Blacks
in Science and Technology: A Selected Bibliography," African-American
Index, 1991.
Other Materials:
"Introducing
Cultural Diversity in Nursing Curricula: Some Issues for Further
Consideration." Western
Interstate Commission on Higher Education, 1976. 15 pp.
"What's
Worth Reading?" Black Collegian, 10, 2 (October/November 1979), 115, 119.
Abstract,
"The Origins of the National Institute of Science," Transactions of the National Institute of Science, (1981), 60.
"Blacks
in Science." A brochure
prepared to accompany a talk I gave at the 1984 World's Fair, New Orleans, LA.
"Forward,"
Black Cowboys, by Paul Stewart
and Wallace E. Ponce. (Broomfield,
CO: Phillips Publishing, 1986), vi.
Introduction,
"A White Man's War: Race Issues and Vietnam," a special issue of Vietnam
Generation, 1, 2 (April 1989), pp
3-5.
"Teachers
are the Key: What is Good for Minority Students is Good for All," The
Tutor, 5, 3 (Fall 1989), p. 3.
Introduction,
"African Americans and the Military: A Special Commemorative Issue,"
a special issue of Trotter Review,
7, 1 ( Spring 1993), p. 5.
Commentary
on Stephen B. Thomas and Sandra Crouse-Quinn, "The Aids Epidemic and the
African American Community: Toward An Ethical Framework for Service
Delivery," in Annette Dula and Sara Goering, eds., "It Just Ain't
Fair:" The Ethics of Health Care for African Americans.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994, 88-89.
"Colorado,"
in Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith and Cornel West, eds., Encyclopedia of
African American Culture and History, volume
2. (New York: Simon & Schuster
Macmillan, 1996), 612-15. "Wyoming," in same, volume 5, 2899-2901.
"Garrett
A. Morgan," in Juliet E.K. Walker, ed., Encyclopedia of Afro-American
Business History. (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Publishing Co, 1999), 388-91.
Several entries in, Nina Mjagkij, Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 2001), 212-14; 463-64.
Eight entries in Gerald Horne and Mary Young,
eds., W.E.B. Du Bois An Encyclopedia. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001), 6-7; 30-31; 46-47; 116-17;
117-18; 129; 191; 200.
Entry,
"Webb, Wellington and Wilma," in David J. Wishart, editor, Encyclopedia of
the Great Plains. (Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 2004), 23.
Entry,
"Exodusters," in Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama, Eds. Encyclopedia of
Black Studies. (Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage Publications, 2005), 237-39.
Introduction. My Voice for Civil Rights, by Lindley J. Stiles. (Boulder, CO: Graduate
Teacher Program, 2005).
CONSULTANCIES:
"Spirit
at the Mountaintop": A Television
Documentary. Assisted in compiling a history of Shorter African Methodist
Episcopal Church, Denver's second oldest black church.
PAPERS
PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:
"Creating Opportunities to Train The Mind: Public Schooling for Afroamericans in Post Civil War Denver, Colorado," Association for the Study of African American Life and History Meeting, Pittsburgh, 30 September 2004.
"Joseph D. D. Rivers, Turn-of-the-Century Black Denver, and the Du Bois - Washington Debate," ASALH Meeting, Buffalo, NY, 7 October 2005.
"The Owl Club of Denver, Colorado," ASALH Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 29 September 2006.
"Contesting Culture and Space: Forming the Black Community in Nineteenth Century Denver, Colorado," American Historical Association, 4 January 2007.
"'Speaking Out for Self": The Black Struggle for the Right to Vote in Territorial Colorado, 1861-1867." ASALH Meeting, Charlotte, NC, 4 October 2007.
"Past Presidents' Roundtable," National Council for Black Studies, Atlanta, GA, 20 March 2008.
INVITED
LECTURES, ADDRESSES, COLLOQUIA, ETC.:
Guest
on "Let's Talk About It," WGFT, 1330 AM, Youngstown, OH, 1 October 2004, "A
Father and Son Conversation."
Lecturer,
Graduate Teacher Workshop, UCB, 19 August 2005.
Lecturer,
Graduate Teacher Workshop, UCB, 23 August 2006.
Visiting
Lecturer, United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya, 27 February
2007-1 March 2007.
Lecturer,
Student Outreach Center for Equity, UCB, 31 July 2007.
Lecturer,
Graduate Teacher Workshop, UCB, 24 August 2007.
PERFORMANCES:
William
Edward Burghardt Du Bois, for Missouri and Illinois Humanities Councils, June
1995 and June 1996, Summer Chatauqua Tour. Same for Kansas Humanities Council, November, 1996.
TEACHING EXPERIENCES:
Professor
of Afroamerican Studies, The University of Colorado at Boulder, Fall 1993 to
Present. Offering courses in
History, the Social Sciences; and Afroamerican Philosophy.
Associate
Professor in Black Studies, UCB, 1986 to 1993. Offered courses on Black Religious Life in America, Martin
Luther King, Jr., The Civil Rights Movement, and Black America and the War in
Vietnam.
Core
Faculty. Walden University, June 1984 to 1990. Offering doctoral level
instruction and dissertation supervision in social change.
Associate
Professor in the Social Sciences Division, The Center for Interdisciplinary
Studies, UCB, July 1982 to June 1986.
Offered courses on Race, Class and Gender, Science, Technology, and
Society, The Pursuit of Power, and Selected Topics in Afroamerican
Studies. Also offered course in
the Graduate School of Public Affairs, The University of Colorado at Denver on
Ethics and Public Administration.
Visiting
Research Professor, Lincoln University (PA), September 1980 to May 1981. Lectured on topics in Black Studies and
ongoing science and society research.
Associate
Professor in Black Studies, UCB, August 1977 to June 1982. Offered courses on
the Afroamerican Scientist and Inventor, The Black West, W.E.B. Du Bois,
Afrocentric Research Methods and several others.
Assistant
Professor in Public Affairs (Attendant), GSPA, UCD, 1974 to 1977. Offered introductory graduate work in
Urban Affairs.
Appointed
to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Colorado, January
1974. Offered courses on the
Politics and Ethics of Social Research. Director of or committee member of
Master's theses and Doctoral dissertations in History, Education, and the
Social Sciences.
Assistant
Professor in Black Studies, UCB, 1972 to 1977. Offered courses in Afroamerican History, Black Social and
Political Thought, Black Community Development, and Black Biography. Began first researches in Science,
Technology and Society during this period.
Assistant
Professor in Urban Studies, Utica College, 1970 to 1972. Offered courses in Urban Philosophy,
Research in Urban Communities, Urban Planning and New Towns, Studies of Local
Power Structures, and Community Organization.
Canton
Public Schools (McKinley High School), Canton, OH, October 1969 to February
1970 (PT). Offered instruction in
Black History/Black Culture.
Instructor
in History and Sociology, UPWARD BOUND, Walsh College, North Canton, OH,
1969. Offered courses in Black
History and Social Sciences.
Lecturer
in Sociology, Walsh College, September 1968 to June 1969 (PT). Offered courses in General Sociology
and Social Psychology.
Canton
Public Schools, Special Education Teacher (Educable Mentally Retarded),
September 1966 to June 1967.
Self-contained unit including Shop and Physical Education.
ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPERIENCES:
Associate
Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, July
2002 to January 2005. Second Tour, August 2007 to Present.
Coordinator, Afroamerican Studies Program, UCB, August 1990 to Present. Responsible for student advising and related activities.
Director,
Publications Unit, Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America, UCB,
July 1989 to Present. Responsible
for development of editorial policy and manuscript recruiting. Also prepared same for and supervised
publication and dissemination of books, monographs, and occasional papers. Also developed the electronic journal
for the Department of Ethnic Studies.
Director,
Black Studies Program, UCB, February 1986 to May 1989. Responsible for curriculum development,
faculty recruiting, evaluation, and execution of policies created and
authorized by program faculty.
Project
Director, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Grant, "Terrence Through
Time." January 1986 to May 1986.
Project
Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Planning Conference,
Black American West Museum, Denver, CO, January 1980 to June 1980.
Project
Director, Colorado Humanities Program Grant, "Treatment of Minorities in
State and Local History." January 1975 to May 1975.
Director,
Black Studies Program, UCB, September 1974 to August 1975.
Coordinator,
Center for Urban Studies, Utica College of Syracuse University, August 1971 to
August 1972.
MEMBERSHIP
IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Association
for the Study of African-American Life and History
Association
of Social and Behavioral Scientists
National
Congress of Black Faculty
National
Council for Black Studies
National
Institute of Science
Organization
of American Historians
Society
for Philosophy and Technology
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE:
Resource
Coordinator, Title I, HEA, 1963, "Community Organization for Economic
Development," Utica, NY, 1971.
Founding
member, National Council for Black Studies, April 1975 to April 1976.
Member,
editorial board, Review of Black Political Economy, November 1975 to December 1982.
Associate
Editor, UMOJA: A Scholarly Journal of Black Studies,
March 1976 to August 1978.
Vice
Chairman, NCBS, April 1976 to June
1978.
Member,
editorial board, Western Journal of Black Studies, August 1976 to December 1980.
Chairman,
NCBS, July 1978 to June 1980.
Editor,
UMOJA, August 1978 to June
1982.
Member,
Executive Council, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History,
1979 to 1988.
Advisory
Editor, The Journal of Negro History, 1980 to 1997. Member,
editorial board, October 1998 to December 2001.
Elected
Archivist, National Institute of Science, March 1981.
Appointed
to editorial board, Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences, April 1981.
Elected
Historian, NCBS, March 1984.
Member,
advisory board, Vietnam Generation,
Winter 1988 to Present.