Associate Professor, on leave 2024-25
Affiliations
Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, African Studies Center, Kilachand Honors College, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Areas of Expertise
Gender, marriage, & family; Africanist anthropology; environment & rurality; ethnographic writing
View Professor Davidson’s CV – November 2024
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Selected Publications
Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World, edited by Joanna Davidson & Dinah Hannaford (Rutgers University Press, 2022)
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/opting-out/9781978830103/
The problem of widows, American Ethnologist, 2020. 47(1): 43-57.
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/amet.12869
Women in Guinea-Bissau, in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African Women’s History (Oxford University Press, 2019).
https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-537
Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment & Development in Rural West Africa, (Oxford University Press, 2016)
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/sacred-rice-9780199358687?cc=us&lang=en&
Courses
- CAS AN 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- CAS AN 103 Anthropology through Ethnography
- CAS AN 312 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
- GRS AN 510 Proposal Writing for the Social Sciences
- GRS AN 533 Ethnographic Genres
- GRS AN 594 Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Feminist Anthropology
- GRS AN 701 Proseminar: Anthropological Approaches to Marriage & Family
- KHC AN 102 The Power, Politics, and Ethics of Storytelling
- KHC HC 401 Epistemologies & the Process of Inquiry
- KHC HC 501 The Many Lives & Works of Zora Neale Hurston
- KHC HC 512 People in Process: Choices & Change
Selected Awards & Fellowships
- Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellowship, Boston University Center for the Humanities (BUCH), 2024
- Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, Boston University, 2023
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, 2019
- Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching, CAS, Boston University, 2018