Dána-Ain Davis


Dána-Ain Davis is a professor of urban studies at Queens College, City University of New York and the Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society.

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. Davis received her PhD in Anthropology at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Davis is the co-editor of Feminist Anthropology, the first journal from the Association of Feminist Anthropology. Davis is on the editorial board for CA, WSQ. In 2018, Davis was appointed as a Taskforce Member in Governor Cuomo's Maternal/Mortality Task Force.

Publications