Assistant Professor of History

TEACHING AREA

History

EDUCATION

• MA, History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

CONTACT

• 618.374.5683
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A dedicated and thoughtful educator, mentor, and cultural historian, Ms. Davis seeks to provide relevant, compelling history courses that expose students to the most recent scholarship while centering primary source readings and research in her classrooms. She is particularly intent on providing opportunities for students to engage with multiple perspectives, in order to drive student growth in critical thinking as well as a capacity for empathic, ethical leadership.

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS

• Transnational study of the re-indigenization movement, especially efforts toward repatriation of cultural resources in the museum space, with a particular focus on Hawai'i.
• Modern China's patriotic education movement, specifically its impact on Chinese museums.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO FIELD

In April 2021, Davis had an op-ed published in The Berkshire Eagle as a counterpoint to New York Times' columnist Ross Douthat's piece titled "How Does a Baby Bust End" (March 27, 2021). While pursuing her graduate studies, she supported quality public history and literary programs in the Hawaiian Islands as the Hawaii Council for the Humanities' Director of Grants and Special Projects. Davis has presented papers at the American Historical Association's Pacific Branch Conference, at the Annual American Studies Forum, and as a Panelist for the Teaching American History Grant.

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

• American Historical Association
• National Council on Public History
• Association for Asian Studies

AWARDS

• Best Master’s Thesis, History Department, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2009
• Best Graduate Paper, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Committee, Honolulu, HI, 2009
• Herbert F Margulies Award for Best Paper in American History, 2003. Paper Title: “Recarving History: The Crazy Horse Monument.”

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• “The American National Memorial Landscape: Conflicts, Controversies and the American Self.” Presented at the 30th Annual American Studies Forum, Sponsored by The Center for Asia-Pacific Exchange, Honolulu, HI, August 2010
• “Controversies Surrounding American Monuments and Native Histories,” as part of Follow-Up Session #1: “Using the National History Day Model to Teach Controversial Topics in History and Historical Research (High School Strand)”, Teaching American History Grant, September 2009
• “The American National Memorial Landscape and the King Kamehameha I Monument.” Speaking Engagement at The History Club of Honolulu, September 2009.
• “(Re)Vision of the Nation: The King Kamehameha I Monument.” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Honolulu, HI, March 2009
• “Arrival of a King: Kamehameha Goes to Washington.” American Historical Association, Pacific Branch Conference, 2003
• “Recarving History: The Crazy Horse Monument.” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2009.

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