Patricia Davis

Northeastern University

Patricia Davis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. She has written extensively on the issue of race, representation, and identity, with a specific focus on the poetics and politics involved in the recovery and public presentation of previously-marginalized African American histories and memories. Her award-winning book, “Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity,” was published in 2016. She has published her essays in the journals Text and Performance Quarterly, Social Media + Society, Rhetoric Review, Southern Communication Journal Feminist Media Studies, and the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, as well as numerous edited collections. She is currently working on two books, one tracing the history of black elite civic and political discourse concerning black female respectability, the other detailing the rhetorical history–from the 1850s to the present–of white Americans’ assertions of victimhood.

Areas of Expertise

• Communications
• Cultural Studies
• Film and Media
• History
• Race and Ethnicity
• Social Inequality or Stratification
• Social Theory

Methodology

• Archival Methods
• Ethnographic Methods
• Interviews
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods