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James A. Davis

James Earl Davis, Professor
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

244 Ritter Hall (003-00)
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122

phone: (215) 204-6167
james.earl.davis@temple.edu

Education

Ph.D. - Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (Social Policy and Evaluation Research)
B.A. - Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia (Sociology)

Areas of Professional Interest

  • Gender Studies
  • Sociology of Higher Education
  • Educational Policy
  • Access and Equity

My research focuses on gender and schooling outcomes; men, boys and masculinity; sociology of higher education; and applied research methods. I am particularly interested in issues of access and equity in the educational pipeline as they are informed by gender, race, class, and the intersection of these social locations. My work has appeared in various research journals, including the Gender & Society, Urban Education, American Journal of Evaluation, Peabody Journal of Education, Evaluation Review, and Educational Researcher. I am the author of African American Males in School and Society: Policies and Practices for Effective Education (with Vernon C. Polite) and Black Sons to Mothers: Compliments, Critiques, and Challenges for Cultural Workers in Education (with M. Christopher Brown). I am a former National Academy of Education-Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, and I have been on the faculty at the University of Delaware and Cornell University. I have also been a Visiting Scholar in the Institute for Research of Women and Gender at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and in the Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison. My work has been funded by the Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Marcus Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education.

Recent Scholarship

Davis, J. E. (2006). Research at the margins: Dropping out of high school and mobility among African American males. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19, 289-304.

Davis, J. E. (2005). Early schooling and African American male achievement. In O. S. Fashola (Ed.), Educating African American Males (pp. 129-150). Thousand Oaks, CA: Crowin Press.

Leonard, J., Davis, J. E. & .Sidler, J. L. (2005). Cultural relevance and computer-assisted instruction. Journal on Technology and Education. 16, 23-34.

Davis, J. E. (2004). Early schooling and the achievement of African American males. Urban Education, 38, 515-537.

Davis, J. E. (2003). Early schooling and the achievement of African American males. Urban Education. 38, 515-537.

Davis, J. E. (2003). Boys to men: Masculine diversity and schooling. In F.C. Worrell (Ed.), Boys to men: The challenges of engaging boys academically and emotionally in the primary and school system (pp. 1-14). Port of Spain, Trinidad: The School Leadership Center of Trinidad and Tobago.

Davis, J. E. (2002). Race, Gender and Sexuality: (Un)Doing Identity Categories in Educational Research, Educational Researcher,31.

Davis, J. E. (2001). Transgressing the masculine: African American Boys and the Failure of Schools" in B. Mayeen and W. Martino (Eds.) What About the Boys? Issues of Masculinity in School

Brown, M.C., & Davis, J. E. (2001). The historically Black college as social contract, social capital and social equalizer. Peabody Journal of Education, 76, 31-49.

Davis, J. E. (2001). Black boys at school: Negotiating masculinities and race. In R. Majors (Ed.), Black education revolution. London: Taylor & Francis.