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Education
Toggle EducationPh.D., History, University of Delaware
M.A., History, University of Delaware
M.A., American Studies, The College of William and Mary
A.B., American Studies, Smith College
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Research and Teaching Interests
Toggle Research and Teaching Interests
U.S. History, specifically focused on women and gender, material culture, and public
history.
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Courses Offered
Toggle Courses OfferedAMH 3561: Women in America from 1870
AMH 3561: Women in America to 1870
AMH 3312: History of Sexuality in America
HIS 3065: Introduction to Public History
HIS 4931: Material Culture in America
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Conference Presentations
Toggle Conference PresentationsRecent Publications:
- Frances Davey and Joanna Salapska-Gelleri, ""We hung around the radio with great interest":
Accessing Childhood Recollections of World War II Through Interdisciplinarity," The Oral History Review 47: 2 (Winter/Spring 2020); published online March 5, 2020.
- Frances Davey, review of Nothing to Speak of: Wartime Experiences of the Danish Jews 1943-1945, by Sofie Lene Bak (Copenhagen, Denmark: Dansk Jødisk Museum, 2011) in The Oral History
Review (Winter/Spring 2020); published online January 1, 2020.
- Frances Davey, "'Disguised beyond any possibility of recognition': The Seaside and
the Subversion of Social Norms at Coney Island," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (July 2019).
- Frances Davey, Kris De Welde, and Nicola Foote, "Histories of Choice: Using Feminist
Pedagogies Outside the Traditional Classroom," in Kristina R. Llewellyn and Nicholas
Ng-A- Fook, eds., Oral History and Education: Theories, Dilemmas, and Practices, Palgrave Macmillan (2017). Winner of the Canadian Oral History Association Prize.
- Frances Davey, Kris De Welde, and Nicola Foote, "Oral History as Inspiring Pedagogy
for Undergraduate Education," Our Schools/Our Selves (Winter 2016).
- Frances Davey, Nicola Foote, and Kris De Welde, "Teaching and Researching Roe vs.
Wade: Responding to Linda Kerber's Call for Historical Action Through a Service-Learning
Undergraduate Project," Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (January 2015).
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Grants & Awards
Toggle Grants & AwardsRecent Grants & Awards:
- Five College Women's Studies Research Center Research Associateship, Five College
Inc., Mount Holyoke College MA, 2018-2020
- Innovative Course Development Grant, FGCU, 2017
- With Joanna Salapska-Gelleri, Small Grant for Preliminary Research Office of Research
and Special Projects, FGCU, 2017
- With Bill Locascio, Department of Social Sciences Fieldwork Fund FGCU, 2017
- Newcomb Institute Travel-to-Collections Grant, Tulane University, 2014, 2016
- Canadian Arts and Humanities Research Board Travel Grant, University of Ottawa, 2015
- Lucas Center Travel Grant, FGCU, 2015
- Service-Learning Course Development Grant, FGCU, 2015
- Professional Development Fund Grant, FGCU, 2013-2019
- Oral History Association Travel Grant, Oral History Association, 2014
My current projects include a book manuscript titled “Women’s Collegiate Athletics
and the Development of Physical Activism,” as well as an oral history project titled
“Childhood Narratives of War.” Whenever possible, I involve student researchers in
this work.
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