Faculty

Davis, Janet M.
Associate Professor

Office: BUR 432
Phone: 512-232-1848
jmdavis1@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research interests:
Davis is currently working on a social and cultural history of the animal welfare movement from 1866-1930, paying special attention to the place of evangelical Christians and radical humanists in the United States and abroad.

Courses taught:
American Studies, popular culture, nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural and social history, Women's Studies, and modern South Asia

Geographic Area(s) of Study: United States, South Asia

Recent Publications:
Dr. Davis is the author of The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top (2002). She has edited the papers of Tiny Kline, a turn-of-the-century Hungarian Jewish immigrant who danced at burlesque shows, hung by her teeth at the circus, and was Disneyland's first Tinker Bell at age 70. "Give Em the Flash": Burlesque and Iron-Jaw Memories of America's First Tinker Bell will be published with the University of Illinois Press in January 2008.