Barbara J. King
Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary, Virginia
Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary, Virginia
Barbara J. King is Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. She is a biological anthropologist who specialized for many years in the behavior of monkeys and apes. Recently, via her love of bison, cats, frogs, and diverse other creatures, she has broadened her focus to animal cognition, emotion, and welfare. With her husband, she rescues homeless cats in southeastern Virginia. Her books include Being with Animals (2010) and How Animals Grieve (2013). She writes weekly at NPR’s 13.7 Cosmos and Culture blog and regularly for the Times Literary Supplement.
