Diane E. King

Diane E. King is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She completed her Ph.D. at Washington State University in 2000. Her main research site is the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and she has also worked in Southeast Asia and among Kurdish communities in the United States. Her topical interests include anthropological kinship theory, gender, religion, governance and the state, and globalization. As an ethnographer, her main research method is spending time with people as they go about their daily lives. She seeks to understand how everyday practices and values inform and are impacted by larger scales of relating, from the governmental to the global. Previously she taught at American University of Beirut (2000-2006, except during two research leaves), was a research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Kentucky (2001-2002), and carried out fellowships sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (at UC San Diego, Spring 2004) and the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation (at Washington State University, 2006-2007). In 2013-2014, she was a fellow with the Center for Historical Research at Ohio State University, where she was a part of the research program, "The State as Idea and Practice."