The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has announced the ten schools chosen to participate in its 2021 Institute on Reframing Institutional Transformation to Include Non-Tenure-Track STEM Faculty. Dr. Davis joins the institute as a faculty member and will provide a lecture on the historical and disciplinary contexts of power.

Invited lecture for the School of Human Evolution and Social Change’s new perennial colloquium series “Toward a Liberatory Theory and Praxis” at Arizona State University.

Engaging Contradictions: Activist Scholarship and Transforming Higher Education for the Black Public Good

Engaging Contradictions: Activist Scholarship and Transforming Higher Education for the Black Public Good draws from the work of Charles Hale, Joy James, Edmund T. Gordon, and others to frame intellectual and scholarly trajectories that seek to renew themselves through meaningful engagement with the material conditions of everyday life. Through autoethnographic reflection and ethnographic discovery, Dr. Davis brings together a decade of empirical, theoretical, and conceptual study of race, racism, and resistance during the Black Lives Matter era, specifically to confront and make intelligible the contradictions embedded in pursuing a scholarly career in tandem with political commitments often antithetical to the neoliberal university.

Register for the event here.