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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. [1] 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. [2] In the 1980s, prior to becoming an author and historian, King was a corporate bond trader for Salomon Brothers. [3]

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Books and publications

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. [4] The book was the result of an oral history project that King conducted while an elementary school teacher in Washington, D.C. [5]

King has written scholarly articles on abolitionists in film and ambition and sin in Anglo-American culture. [6] He has written book reviews for The New York Times. [7]

Film and Play

Prior to publishing his two books, King wrote, directed and produced a documentary film on African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner that was aired on many public television stations. King won a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce the film in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [8]

In 2011, King also wrote and directed a historical play. Drawn from her letters, King wrote the play A Revolutionary Woman: An Afternoon with Mrs. Mercy Otis Warren. King directed performances of the play at the Yale University Art Gallery in September 2011. [9]

Work on Data Analytics and other subjects

King is also known for his work with data analytics, has taught "Big Data and Global Policies" at Yale, and has consulted for numerous governmental agencies. King also teaches courses on data analytics and anti-human trafficking, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. He uses big data analytics to study aspects of the financial markets. He performed a study on the efficacy or lack thereof of the SEC Circuit Breakers. [10] He also served as a panelist on "The Volatility Economy: Wall Street, Main Street and the Middle Class" along with Robert Shiller, Jacob Hacker, Frank Hathaway and Joe Nocera. [11] King also developed a Lexicon of words to assist in event risk hedging in the corporate bond market. [12] He has presented his findings in several other venues, including delivering the keynote address at “Battle of the Quants,” New York, NY March, 2012. [13]

Personal

King was born in New York City but spent his early childhood on Greenfield Hill in Fairfield, Connecticut. He graduated from Phillips Academy Andover and then was an undergraduate at Tulane and Harvard University. He later received his PhD from Yale. King also went on to become an avid cyclist. While living in the south of France, King was a member of the French cycling team AVC Aix, now a farm team for the professional Cofidis team. He also rode for a UFOLEP team based in Cavaillon. In 2005, King broke away alone early in the "Challenge Yves Jullian" to win the race at least two minutes in front of the entire field. [14] While pursuing his PhD in 2002, King also rode for the Yale Cycling Team, winning a silver medal at the collegiate national championships in the team time trial in 2002. [15] He lives in Hamden, CT.

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References

  1. ↑ "Casey King - Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs". Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
  2. ↑ Harvard Crimson September 29, 2006
  3. ↑ Luann Bishop, "Banjo lesson sparked graduate student's journey from Wall Street to Yale' Yale Bulletin and Calendar v. 26, n. 26 Archived 2014-10-31 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Children's Book Committee. "List of winners". Bankstreet College of Education. Archived from the original on 2013-01-04.
  5. ↑ Washington Post Book World, April 6, 1997
  6. ↑ “Icarus Unbound: Ambition and Sin in Anglo-American Culture, 1570-1776,” The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform, Steve Mintz ed. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007).“Abolitionists in American Cinema: From The Birth of a Nation to Amistad,” Prophets of Protest, John Stauffer and Timothy Patrick McCarthy eds. (New York: New Press, 2006).
  7. ↑ New York Times Books in Brief, High Tide In Tucson, Essays From Now or Never Review by Casey King, Oct. 15, 1995. Daughters of the Dust Review by Casey King, Dec. 14, 1997
  8. ↑ Cathy Hainer, The Washington Post Magazine, "Portrait of an Artist" February 10, 1991
  9. ↑ Yale Arts Calendar September 18, 2011 "A Revolutionary Woman". Yale Arts Calendar.
  10. ↑ Bill Alpert, "Study of Upcoming Stock Market Circuit Breakers," Barron's, August 13, 2012
  11. ↑ WNPR Where We Live November 2, 2011 "The Volatility Economy: Wall Street, Main Street and the Middle Class."
  12. ↑ DJ Alpha From the Team at Dow Jones Financial Markets, "Question and Answer with William Casey King, PhD, Executive Director of the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences," Vol. XXIV. "DJAlpha from the Team at Dow Jones Financial Markets". Archived from the original on 2013-03-01. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  13. ↑ Casey King, “Liquid Gold, Illiquid Assets: Hedging Event-Risk in Fixed-Income Securities, BP Bonds and the Oil Disaster of 2010” Battle of the Quants "Battle of the Quants - March 27-28 - New York". Archived from the original on 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  14. ↑ La Provence "Le trophee Jullian aprement dispute," June 6, 2005
  15. ↑ USA Cycling, Collegiate National Championships, 2002 results.


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