Sherese King
Associate Professor of Linguistics
University of Chicago
Sharese King is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago and a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation during the 2026–2027 academic year. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2018.
King’s research uses phonetic, ethnographic, and experimental methods to examine how African American speech is constructed and racialized, as well as the implications of these racialized perceptions within the U.S. judicial system. Her work has appeared in publications including the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language, and Nature, and she has also coauthored an editorial in the Los Angeles Times.