Web Page: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~tkingmea/

 

 

Ph.D.:  University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

 

Fields:  American Legislative Politics, National Institutions, Civic Engagement, Racial Identity, Representation, and Contemporary Democratic Theory

 

Tyson King-Meadows' is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), an affiliate of UMBC's Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR), and an Honors College Faculty Fellow. Tyson has held a fellowship at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University's Center for African American Studies, and a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Ghana. He has also served as a Visiting Researcher at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. His first book, Devolution and Black State Legislators: Challenges and Choices in the Twenty-First Century (co-authored with Thomas F. Schaller), examines the relationship between descriptive representation in state assemblies and the substantive representation of black interests. His latest works explore voting rights enforcement in the post-civil rights era and racial identity politics in congressional elections. Tyson actively pursues research grants and strategic research partnerships, is the Principal Investigator for NCOBPS' collaboration with the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), and was recently appointed to the inaugural class of Fulbright Alumni Ambassadors (2009-2010). He currently serves as a national officer of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., as liaison to the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Tyson is an active member of his community.