Tiffany King

Tiffany King holds the Barbara and John Glynn Research Professorship in Democracy and Equity and serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Virginia's College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. She co-directs the Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute (BFFI), an institutional hub cultivating relationships among scholars, artists, and organizers at the intersection of Black and Indigenous life.

Her research emerges from abolitionist and decolonial traditions within Black and Native/Indigenous Studies, centering Black queer feminist and Indigenous/Native queer feminist frameworks. She develops a 'Black and Indigenous analytics of the flesh' to engage feminist and queer poetics, critique, dreams, and ecologies as sites of rupture for decolonial and abolitionist futures. Her work critically examines settler colonialism, anti-Black racism, and the relational formations between Black and Indigenous studies.

Professor King's publications reveal a cohesive scholarly trajectory exploring Black-Indigenous relationalities through interdisciplinary lenses. Her monograph The Black Shoals and co-edited volume Otherwise Worlds establish foundational interventions in decolonial and abolitionist thought, while her forthcoming book Red and Black Alchemies of Flesh extends these frameworks through erotic and intimate connections between Black and Indigenous feminist traditions.

Her scientific recognition includes:

• Lora Romero First Book Prize for The Black Shoals

As co-director of the Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute, Professor King leads institutional programming that strengthens collaborative networks across academic and activist communities. The BFFI serves as a critical nexus for advancing scholarship at the vital intersection of Black and Indigenous life, reflecting her commitment to building decolonial and abolitionist futures through collective intellectual work.