Belinda Davis

Belinda Joy Davis (born July 13, 1959) is an American historian of modern Germany and Europe at Rutgers University.^[1][2]

Biography

She holds a BA from Wesleyan University, and earned her PhD from the University of Michigan. Davis writes on popular politics and social change. She is currently Professor of History at Rutgers University.^[3]

Davis served on the editorial board of the American Historical Review,^[4] and as North American editor of Women’s History Review.^[3] She was Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in 2015,^[5] and Research Fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University, 2003 - 2004.^[6] Davis co-directed the Volkswagen Foundation-funded research project "Das Fremde im Eigenen: Interkultureller Austausch und kollektive Identitäten in der Revolte der 1960er Jahre.”^[7][8] She is also a political activist, working with the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign.^[9][10]

Selected works

• The Internal Life of Politics: Extraparliamentary Opposition in West Germany, 1962-1983 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Transnational Identities in 1960s/70s, West Germany and the U.S., ed., with Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Klimke, and Carla MacDougall (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010, 2012)
• Alltag—Erfahrung—Eigensinn. Historisch-anthropologische Erkundungen, ed., with Thomas Lindenberger and Michael Wildt (Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus, 2008)
• Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000)

References

1. Braybon, G. (2004). Evidence, History, and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914-18. Austrian and Habsburg Studies. Berghahn Books. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-57181-801-0. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
2. Kuhlman, E. (2016). The International Migration of German Great War Veterans: Emotion, Transnational Identity, and Loyalty to the Nation, 1914-1942. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-137-50160-8. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
3. "Davis, Belinda". history.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
4. "In This Issue". The American Historical Review. 118 (4): xiii–xv. 2013-10-01. doi:10.1093/ahr/118.4.xiii. ISSN 0002-8762.
5. "Former Fernand Braudel Senior Fellows". European University Institute. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
6. "Past Fellows | Department of History". history.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
7. Davis, Belinda; Mausbach, Wilfried; Klimke, Martin; MacDougall, Carla (2013-07-15). Changing The World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9780857458209.
8. Hagemann, Karen; Quataert, Jean H. (2007-08-30). Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9780857457042.
9. "After settling their stink with city, protesters to march on first day of DNC". Philly.com. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
10. "Gallery | POOR PEOPLE'S ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN". economichumanrights.org. Retrieved 2017-12-29.