Harrison King graduated from Miami University (Ohio) in 2011 where he majored in International Studies and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He also holds an MA in Comparative History from Central European University in Budapest. In 2016-17, he participated in the Alfa Fellowship Program in Moscow, where he worked as a volunteer at the International Memorial Society. He is currently a first-year PhD student focusing on late imperial Russian and Soviet history at UC-Berkeley.