Casey King

About

William Casey King (“Casey King”) is an author, filmmaker and historian of ideas who currently serves on the faculty and as Director of Capstone Programs at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. King has also served as the Executive Director of the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences and was formerly the Executive Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. In the 1980s, prior to becoming an author and historian, King was a corporate bond trader for Salomon Brothers.

King is the author of Ambition, A History, From Vice to Virtue published by Yale University Press in January, 2013. The book traces ambition’s transformation from pernicious vice to celebrated American virtue. King also co-authored Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People who Made it Happen which was the recipient of the Flora Steiglitz Strauss Award in 1997. The book was the result of an oral history project that King conducted while an elementary school teacher in Washington, D.C.
King has written scholarly articles on abolitionists in film and ambition and sin in Anglo-American culture. He has written book reviews for The New York Times…