Full-Time Faculty: Nancy Davis

Nancy Davis received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and an undergraduate degree in History from Bryn Mawr College. Her doctoral work examined the relationship between the African-American community and the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit in the first half of the twentieth century. Since then, Dr. Davis has published extensively on the rubbing of Catholicism and African-American life and protest. An article on the 1960s Black Catholic protest in Detroit was published in fall 2008 by U.S. Catholic Historian.

Dr. Davis has also developed an interest in African-American social institutions historically and written on the impact of segregation and integration on the viability of black community life. This interest has been deepened by recent study in post-traumatic slave syndrome and the telling of African-American life and she plans to write on how the notion of PTSS alters how one teaches African-American history. She is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty.

• FA 387 African American Studies in Critical Perspectives
• HC 382 American Colonial History
• IN 249 New York: An Historical Overview
• IN 368 Learning History Through Museums
• LL 250 Foundations of Adult Learning
• LL 300 Research Seminar
  

Phone: 312-362-5852
E-mail: ndavis@depaul.edu