katrina quisumbing king
Assistant Professor of Sociology
- kqk@northwestern.edu
- 1808 Chicago Ave, Room 209
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Area(s) of Interest
Race and Ethnicity, Migration and Citizenship, Imperialism and Colonialism, State-making, Law and Society, Theory
Biography
katrina quisumbing king (surname: quisumbing king, pronounced kiss-uhm-bing king) studies racial classification and exclusion from a historical perspective that foregrounds the state’s authority to manage populations. She is particularly interested in the ways state actors conceive of and make decisions around race and citizenship. Her research recenters empire as a key political formation. In the U.S. context, she focuses especially on how the state defines colonized populations and how these people fit into the U.S. racial order.
Professor Quisumbing King earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Prior to joining Northwestern, she spent two years as a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Southern California.
Courses Taught
SOCIOL 101: Race, Law, and Belonging in the United States
SOCIOL 304: Politics of Racial Knowledge
SOCIOL 376: Empire
SOCIOL 376/Latino 392/ASIAN_AM 303: Colonial Citizenshio
SOCIOL 398: Senior Thesis Seminar
SOCIOL 406-3: Contemporary Theory
SOCIOL 476: Nationalism and Empire
Books
quisumbing king, katrina. 2025. Enduring Empire: U.S. Statecraft and Race-Making in the Philippines. Stanford University Press.
Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters
quisumbing king, katrina. 2024. “Dismantling Rights: Forthcoming Independence and the Revocation of U.S. Military Benefits from Filipino WWII Veterans,” Law and Social Inquiry 49(2): 1004-1035
quisumbing king, katrina. 2024. “The Global Color Line and White Supremacy: DuBois as a Grand Theorist of Race,” in Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. DuBois, edited by Aldon Morris, Walter Allen, Karida Brown, Dan Green, Marcus Hunter, Cheryl Johnson-Odim and Michael Schwartz, New York: Oxford University Press.
quisumbing king, katrina. 2022. “The Structural Sources of Ambiguity in the Modern State: Race, Empire, and Conflicts over Membership,” American Journal of Sociology 128(3): 768-819.
quisumbing king, katrina. 2019. “Recentering U.S. Empire: A Structural Perspective on the Color Line,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 5(1): 11-25.
Edited Special Issues
White, Alexandre I.R. and katrina quisumbing king, eds. 2021. Global and Historical Sociology of Race and Racism. Special Issue of Political Power and Social Theory, Volume 38.
Carrillo, Ian R., katrina quisumbing king, and Kai A. Schafft, eds. 2021. Race, Ethnicity, and Rurality in the United States. Special Issue of Rural Sociology 86 (3),
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