Dr. Candace King is an Emmy Award winning journalist and scholar of African American Studies, Women's Studies, and Surveillance Studies. Dr. King has over a decade of communications training and experience, assuming sole responsibility of producing original news content on deadline for both broadcast and digital-first platforms including NBC News, NBCBLK, The Emancipator, ESSENCE Magazine, and The Nation. Dr. King specializes in media representations of Black women, with emphasis on Black women’s varied responses to state surveillance.
Her research has been recognized and financially supported by the National Women's Studies Association, as well as the Graduate School and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at UMASS Amherst. Dr. King’s research has been featured in conferences around the world including The Netherlands, Nigeria, and South Africa. Currently, she teaches three courses which she has developed for Boston College that explore race, gender, and violence. As a professor, she takes pride in bridging scholarship with storytelling by turning the classroom into a newsroom to provide students with a different engagement with course materials.
