Dr. Diane E. King
Ph.D., Washington State University
Fellow, Howard Foundation, Brown University
Adjunct Researcher, WSU
Cultural Anthropology
Diane King is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on identity, migration, gender, and kinship. She has conducted multi-sited research with Iraqi Kurds since 1995, and also worked on urban-rural migration in Malaysia. She is interested in the process of diaspora formation, and how non-migrants understand themselves and local social collectivities in the context of the diasporization process. Currently she is working on a revision of her dissertation, When Worlds Collide: The Kurdish Diaspora from the Inside Out, as well as on the research project “Kurdish Migration Histories.” From 2000 to 2006 (except for during two research leaves) she taught anthropology, sociology, and civilization studies at the American University of Beirut. In 2001-2002 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kentucky, and in 2004 was a visiting scholar at UC San Diego funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Representative Publications
2005 Asylum Seekers / Patron Seekers: Interpreting Iraqi Kurdish Migration. Human Organization 64(4):316-326.
2002 Kurdish Approaches to Fate and Action. Journal of Kurdish Studies 4: 67-79.
2001 Employees to Asylees: Iraqi Kurds in an American Dream. In Selected Papers on Refugees and Immigrants 2001 (Vol. IX), edited by MaryCarol Hopkins and Nancy Wellmeier. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.
1997 Colonization of Reality or Reality of Colonization?: Reflections on International Development in Iraqi Kurdistan. Development Anthropologist, 15: 1 and 2, Spring and Fall 1997.
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