Dr. Nicole King
Tenured
Department of American Studies Language, Literacy and Culture
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
Nicole King is a Professor and the Co-director of the Orser Center for Public Humanities in the Department of American Studies at UMBC. Her research focuses on issues of place, power, and the tensions between historic preservation and economic development.
Research interests
public humanities
cultural history & documentation
historic preservation
urban economic development
deindustrialization and tourism/entertainment/art
gentrification
Teaching interests
American cultural history
place and space
urban studies
historic preservation
social justice
Education
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Ph D, American Studies
— University of Maryland (2008) Sombreros and Motorcycles in a Newer South: The Politics of Tourism in South Carolina
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MA, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
— University of New Mexico (2001) The Story of South of the Border
- BA, English — Coastal Carolina University (1999)
Publications
- Community-Based Methods for Envisioning Deindustrialization: Mapping Baybrook and Mill Stories Projects of Baltimore, Maryland, USA" 2017
- BaltimoreUprising2015 2015
- Conversation artist: Chanan Delivuk has deep roots in Curtis Bay 2014
- Contemporary kicks off CoHosts series at Baltimore School for the Arts with Coco Fusco 2014
- Gary is torn between his father and the film’s titular character, Joe 2014
- Days of their lives 2014
- “Robert Williams brings African culture to Hollins Market” 2014
Creative Publications
- BaltimoreUprising2015 2015
- Conversation artist: Chanan Delivuk has deep roots in Curtis Bay 2014
- Contemporary kicks off CoHosts series at Baltimore School for the Arts with Coco Fusco 2014
- Gary is torn between his father and the film’s titular character, Joe 2014
- Days of their lives 2014
- “Robert Williams brings African culture to Hollins Market” 2014
Presentations
- A History of Poppleton 2021
- Reimagining Baltimore for Whom?: Community Coalitions, Gentrification, and Corporate-driven New Urbanist Redevelopment 2019
- Home/Not Home in Baltimore: Place and Positionality in Studying the Baltimore Uprising 2016
- How Public History, Art, and Journalism Can Challenge Baltimore’s Exclusive Past 2016
- Pedagogical Practice in Interdisciplinary Research 2015
- Downtown Stories: Place and Public History in Baltimore 2015
- Public History on the Edge of Academic Institutions 2015
- Social History in the 21st Century: What would a "New" Baltimore Book Look Like? 2015
- Steel Stories: Mapping, Documenting & Digitizing Deindustrialization Processes 2014
- Dundalk: What Remains? 2014
- Post-Industrial Places Project (PIPP): Mapping the Stories of Industrial Baltimore 2014
Grants and Contracts
- Maryland Folklife Network Grant FY25 2024
- Maryland Folklife Network Grant 2024