Rebecca L. Davis

Rebecca L. Davis is an assistant professor of history and women's studies at the University of Delaware, where she also serves on the Executive Committee of the Program in Jewish Studies. A scholar of marriage, sexuality, and religion in American culture, she also teaches courses in immigration and ethnicity in the United States. Davis received her Ph.D. in American history from Yale University, where she won the George Washington Egleston Historical Prize for the Dissertation. Her research has received support from Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion, where she was a postdoctoral fellow, and from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities from the Council on Library and Information Resources, and numerous other libraries and research institutions. She lives in Swarthmore, PA.

Readers may contact her at rldavis@​udel.edu.