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Ph.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

U.S. History, specifically focused on women and gender, material culture, and public history.

AMH 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

Recent 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).

Recent 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