Biography - Thomas King

Dr. King earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of South Florida. His dissertation focused on the impact of racial prejudice on cardiovascular functioning.

Dr. King has eleven years of experience as a corporate consultant to several Fortune 500 companies (e.g., Verizon, Publix, Monster.com) and to the U.S. Depts. of Labor and Defense. Professor King also served as principle scientist to USF's Cardiovascular Psychophysiology Laboratory, the Institute of Human Performance, and the Moffitt Interaction Research Group. Dr. King is a veteran of the U.S. Navy; he served from 1993-1997 and was stationed aboard the U.S.S. Lake Champlain.

Dr. King has over twenty presentations and publications to his credit, including the following -
King, T., (2011). The obsolete academic? Symposium at the 33rdth Annual Conference of the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology, St. Pete, FL.

White, K., Bykowski, C., King, T. Salomon, K. (2007). Race and Adiposity Are Related to Cardiovascular Reactivity and Impaired Recovery from Laboratory Stress. Poster at the 47th Annual Conference of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Savannah, GA.

Professor's Note
I know it's cliche, but teaching is my passion. Over the past several years, I've worked as an internal and external business consultant to various Fortune 500 companies; and while those experiences have been rewarding (and made me a better teacher), I've always preferred the classroom to the boardroom. I still do consulting work to keep my knowledge and skills relevant, but I am a teacher, first and foremost.

Over the past eleven years, I have taught at community colleges, a nursing college, a major university, and online. For those of you who are new to the online environment, you are in for a treat. My online students have been far-and-away the most interesting group of folks that I've had the pleasure to teach. In a recent term, I had a student with 14 children (that's right, 14), a rare book dealer, an exotic bird breeder, and a real cowboy, all in the same class. Where else but online can you get that sort of diversity?

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