Robert King

Robert Drury King is professor emeritus of the University of Nevada, Reno, at the Lake; former member of the Institute for Research on World-Systems (IROWS) at the University of California, Riverside; and visiting scholar at Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy. His doctoral dissertation, "System Individuation in Differential and Dialectical Ontology: Deleuze, Hegel, and Systematic Thought," received the College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Dissertation Award at Purdue University where he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Purdue’s dual-Ph.D. program in Philosophy and Literature. He has studied in the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University; the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Città di Castello, Italy; within the Unseld Lecture Series at the University of Tübingen; in The Ohio State University’s Project Narrative Summer Institute; as a visiting scholar under the National Endowment for the Humanities' Summer Institute in Experimental Philosophy at the University of Arizona; and in the National Humanities Center's Summer Institutes in Literary Studies at Research Triangle Park. He received The American Philosophical Society’s Franklin Research Grant to study the Norbert Wiener Papers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an inaugural member of the London Graduate School's Summer Academy in Critical Humanities. Robert King's research domains are philosophy, systems theory, political economy, and the environmental and energy humanities.