Tyson King-Meadows

Dr. Tyson D. King-Meadows is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Norfolk State University, and a former Professor of Political Science and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts-Boston (UMass Boston). Prior to joining UMass Boston, Dr. King-Meadows served as Professor of Political Science, Associate Dean of Research and college Affairs in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and as Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the Provost at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His research interests include public opinion, African American electoral behavior, voting rights, and U.S. political institutions. Dr. King-Meadows has published a range of scholarly articles and monographs, including Devolution and Black State Legislators: Challenges and Choices in the Twenty-First Century (with Thomas F. Schaller) and When the Letter Betrays the Spirit: Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama. His teaching and research endeavors have been supported by the American Political Science Association (APSA), the National Science Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, Princeton University, the U.S. State Department, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program. Dr. King-Meadows has also served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ghana, a W.E.B. DuBois Fellow at Harvard University, and as a APSA Congressional Fellow with the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on the Judiciary.