Dána-Ain Davis

Dána-Ain Davis is a professor of urban studies at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) and the Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society.^[1]

Biography[]

Davis was born in New York. After college, she worked at the Village Voice and then went into the non-profit world, working at the YWCA of the City of New York, WNYC-TV, The Village Centers for Care, and Bronx AIDS Services.^[2] Davis received her PhD in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY.^[1]

Davis is the co-editor of Feminist Anthropology,^[3] the first journal from the Association of Feminist Anthropology (AFA).^[4] Davis is on the editorial board for CA^[5] (Cultural Anthropology), WSQ ^[6](Women's Studies Quarterly). In 2018, Davis was appointed as a Taskforce Member in Governor Cuomo's Maternal/Mortality Task Force.^[7]

Publications[]

• Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth. New York: NYU Press, 2019. ISBN 9781479812271.
• Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges & Possibilities. Dána-Ain Davis and Crista Craven. Lanham, MD; Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. ISBN 978-0-7591-2244-4.
• Feminist Activist Ethnography: Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America. Edited Collection, Christa Craven & Dána-Ain Davis, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7391-7636-8.
• Black Genders and Sexualities. Edited collection, Shaka McGlotten and Dána-Ain Davis, eds. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2012. ISBN 978-1-137-07795-0.
• Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7914-6843-2.

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