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.

References
  1. "Dana-ain Davis – Queens College Urban Studies". Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  2. "Nonprofits Bronx AIDS Services and CitiWide Harm Reduction Merge to Form BOOM!Health".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Feminist Anthropology: The AFA Journal".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Association for Feminist Anthropology".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "Cultural Anthropology".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "Women's Studies Quarterly".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "Maternal Mortality and Disparate Racial Outcomes Report" (PDF). March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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