He earned his Ph.D. and MA degrees in economics from Vanderbilt University and his BA in economics from Western Kentucky University. King has been at Georgia Southern University, where he teaches courses in microeconomics and industrial organization, since 2002. Before coming to Georgia Southern, he taught courses at Duke University, Elon University, and Vanderbilt University. His published research includes applied and theoretical articles on firm and consumer decision making under a variety of market conditions and informational assumptions as well as economics pedagogy. He was the 2008 recipient of the T.J. Morris, Jr. Faculty Award for Excellence in Research in the College of Business Administration.