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Dana-ain Davis |
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Urban Studies |
Associate Professor Dana-ain Davis received her PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in anthropology in 2001. Before coming to Queens College in 2007, she was Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of the Global Black Studies Program at SUNY/Purchase.
Davis' areas of specialization include black studies, family and sexual violence, reproductive rights, poverty and welfare policy, and women's studies. She has published one book, Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform, as well as a number of articles on women and welfare policy. She is President-elect of the Association of Black Anthropologists, Executive Director of the ADCO Foundation, and serves as a consultant to a number of foundations that fund projects involving women's issues.
Professor Davis will serve as Associate Department Chair for Worker Education, based primarily at the Queens College Extension Center in Manhattan.
